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Could you really classify someone who has a GPL enforced legal right to distribute your code a 'pirate' though?
by lsaferite 13y ago
Could you really classify someone who has a GPL enforced legal right to distribute your code a 'pirate' though?
- dllthomas 13y agoI'm not sure you can really classify someone who has no right to distribute your code a 'pirate' - real pirates kill people. Your point stands, though, to be sure.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoReal pirates often try as hard as possible not to kill people. Crew are usually worth more money alive. If you do kill someone, often you get fined by your captain and have to continue piracy to work off the debt.
- dllthomas 13y agoSo real pirates and music "pirates" share that it's not their goal to kill people. The latter still kill far fewer people, and the former still engage in much more violence.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoSorry, I'm just being horribly pedantic, but I suspect that music pirates kill far more people than real pirates, purely because so many people are technically music pirates, wheras the real pirates are very few in number and are also quite likely to be pirating the latest sea-shanties, so there is a lot of overlap.
- dllthomas 13y agoSure, to be more precise... "real pirates are disproportionately more likely to kill people by virtue of being real pirates; the same is not true of music pirates."
- girvo 13y agoEh, I couldn't be bothered thinking of the right word, but I'm sure you knew what I meant :)
- lsaferite 13y agoWell, I could guess your sentiment even though I thought it was wrong. It just made me think of those stupid 'you wouldn't steal a car' ads before movies and I thought I'd point out that they have every legal right to re-sell GPL code if they want.