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You think that people don't leech on the GPL? Great, then I have found just the customer for some snake oil!

There wouldn't be the whole GPL violations thingy if people were not already taking without giving under the GPL.

That is why they are violations. With other licenses it is allowed to do so.

So you acknowledge today some people do already leech as you put it, under the GPL. It may be a violation, and the other party may laugh as they are in a different juridiction. So, what was your point again?

You're confusing "forbid" with "rendering impossible".

We have a law against theft, yet there are continous occurences of people stealing and getting away with it, so by your logic we should remove the law against theft.

> There wouldn't be the whole GPL violations thingy if people were not already taking without giving under the GPL.

Illegally so.

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