[Bug 269656] Re: AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP

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kafpauzo 
>The GPL does allow trademark restrictions. You'd need to find software that is published under a license that forbids trademark restrictions.

A licence can only declare rules (it can't forbid or restrict anything,
except the authors of the licence). A licence can restrict only the
author of the licence. Many software companies are abide by the
satements of their licences. They can't restrict you from copying and
modifying, but they are abide by their words: they will fulfill
unfulfillable rules, either eternally pursuing pirates or breaking their
rules by not pursuing pirates. Ironically, in the Middle Ages you could
buy an indulgence, and now you can buy rights and say "all rights
reserved", when no rights are really reserved.

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AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP
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