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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by tedunangst on Monday September 28, 2009 @03:34PM (#849049)
I think it's ironic that your argument is remarkably similar to "nothing stops you from using a closed source program unless you planned to start hacking on the source." Sometimes you don't know when you start using something what amount of hacking may be required.
Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by pyre on Monday September 28, 2009 @07:26PM (#849444)
Yes, but you can contribute to GPL-licensed projects. It's just specific things that you are limited in. We're talking orders of magnitude. 'closed-source and GPL' and 'MIT/BSD and GPL' aren't even in the same ballpark.
Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by apotheon on Monday September 28, 2009 @09:57PM (#849641)
One thing you can't do with a GPLed application -- and something I do all the time -- is try to support copyfree licensing rather than copyleft licensing.