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Originally Posted by shawger
IANAL, but unless I'm reading this wrong, that would imply that the entire program must be licensed under the GPL, which it is not.
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If I license my code under the GPL and release one or two files, it has no ties to any other pieces of code. At all.
You download it, you put it in your project, but realize that you cannot distribute the entire project now--you cannot relicense the entire thing to be GPL. But that's irrelevant--if you are using this for a private use, the GPL does not apply to any of it.
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The GPL permits anyone to make a modified version and use it without ever distributing it to others. [snip] It is essential for people to have the freedom to make modifications and use them privately, without ever publishing those modifications.
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I think this is entirely clear.
I will take into consideration future rule changes, and may write my own license, because we do *not* want teams to copy anything out of this code repository verbatim.
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