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You need to read more of what RMS says about this.

Authored by: reiisi on Saturday, December 01 2012 @ 12:58 AM EST

Acknowledging that the GPL would not work without copyright law, but it is not
copyright law that protects people in countries like the US from going to jail
for copying.

I don't know about you, but I don't care to have international agreements taking
precedence over national constitutions, to the extent that (for example) the US
Constitutional time limit has to be interpreted as any limit at all, not a
reasonable limit with respect to the lifetime of the author and the market
lifetime of the work.

Look a little deeper into the deep, dark corners of the Berne Convention, and
check again what RMS has to say about the necessity of the GPL.

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