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<blockquote data-quote="pieroxy" data-source="post: 26551" data-attributes="member: 16487">The difference is that the license Vista will be released under does not allow such a thing. The License MP is using does.I am not saying &quot;it's ok&quot;, when it's clearly not. The problem at hand here is that Mp is released under a license called GPL and that this license allow such a thing. If people are mad enough at what is happening on eBay, then just change the license. It really is that easy (or that hard, depends on how you want to look at it).What is beyond me is people releasing a software under a license that says &quot;You can do whatever you want with this provided you join the source code&quot; and then complain because people are doing stuff they did not foresee.Once you've granted the whole world the permission to do anything with your software, you just cannot complain if people are doing stuff you don't like with it.But of course, it's not the people releasing the software that complains, it's others that think they understand what the GPL is all about, when they clearly not. GPL is about allowing anyone to do anything, even stuff you might not morally agree with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pieroxy, post: 26551, member: 16487"] The difference is that the license Vista will be released under does not allow such a thing. The License MP is using does. I am not saying "it's ok", when it's clearly not. The problem at hand here is that Mp is released under a license called GPL and that this license allow such a thing. If people are mad enough at what is happening on eBay, then just change the license. It really is that easy (or that hard, depends on how you want to look at it). What is beyond me is people releasing a software under a license that says "You can do whatever you want with this provided you join the source code" and then complain because people are doing stuff they did not foresee. Once you've granted the whole world the permission to do anything with your software, you just cannot complain if people are doing stuff you don't like with it. But of course, it's not the people releasing the software that complains, it's others that think they understand what the GPL is all about, when they clearly not. GPL is about allowing anyone to do anything, even stuff you might not morally agree with. [/QUOTE]

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