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What is the spirit - is gpl 2 and 3 the same spirit? Some will argue no.

Right now gpl assumes things fall back to copyright but companies have an interest inencoding open soure into law in a way that would benefit them. Some trickery could make something in gpl illegal and then by law it falls back to the new open source license not no license.



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