Thread: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
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2011-03-03 , 02:21
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
I did not say the GPL wasn't restrictive.
You said this:
"Restrictive" and "OSS" do not belong in the same sentence. Anyone who tells you they do, doesn't understand them.
Quite clearly the OSI defines the GPL as a restrictive license, so it is YOU who doesn't understand those terms.


I said that your use of GPL'd code is unrestricted.
Only if you have some warped definition of the term 'use', since distribution is a form of 'use' of that code.

The GPL only comes into play when you redistribute the work licensed under the GPL
i.e. if you *USE* it in an application that you distribute.