20 Feb
2006
20 Feb
'06
5:41 p.m.
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 16:21 -0500, Rob wrote:
On Mon February 20 2006 16:16, Lee Revell wrote:
I don't care about the law, morally, it's stealing.
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.)
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