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So would you be okay if a company “illegally” used and distributed GPL software?


Sure, as long as the same rules applied to their own works. That's the whole motivation behind copyleft licenses: to turn copyright against itself. Without copyright there would be no need for copyleft, the GPL included.


No. That doesn't follow from my comment. What I am saying is that a government's making laws against distribution of software is not censorship.




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