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If you wrote 9,990 lines of proprietary code and included 10 lines of proprietary code from another company, I imagine that your entire program would have to be approved of by the other company in writing, or you wouldn't be able to distribute it.

What's supposed to be the difference here?



> proprietary code ... What's supposed to be the difference here?

The difference is that GPL is claiming to not be proprietary...


Which is why you don't need to ask for permission, just follow the license.


If you're a business, the license effectively says "you can't use this software" though, because as discussed previously it makes all the software that it touches into GPL software so you can't sell it, which is the point of a business.


You can sell GPL software. It paid my salary for years.


I don't understand?


What is there to understand? We sold GPL licensed extensions to a GPL application, and made money. All perfectly valid under the license: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html




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