[linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 16:21 -0500, Rob wrote:
> On Mon February 20 2006 16:16, Lee Revell wrote:
> > How can we expect people to abide by the GPL if we don't
> > respect their licensing terms?  Stealing proprietary software
> > is exactly as immoral as proprietary vendors ripping off
> > GPL'ed code.
> 
> Please don't use the word "steal" to refer to copyright 
> infringement.  They're different crimes.  (In the US, copyright 
> infringement is frequently the more severely punished one.)
> 

I don't care about the law, morally, it's stealing.

> That's almost as annoying as people who use the term 
> "intellectual property" as if you can build a house on it and 
> watch it accrue in value.
> 
> Rob
>