gpl: you HAVE to use our viral license because otherwise some company down the line might take your code and use it proprietarily
me: i... don't think that follows
gpl: and then what will happen to the poor end user?? they'll NEVER see your code that's still online on github because some other company STOLE IT and used it for MONETARY GAIN
me: ok am i misunderstanding or

me, later: [mysteriously disappears after being accosted by free software advocates in an alleyway]

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@typhlosion We must become the super heros that gpl questioners deserve

@Fuego bitten by a radioactive GNU activist and left for a goner, Kasran secretly healed and gained all the strengths and abilities of libre software. now he's on a mission to use their powers against them

he's gonna make them a pull request they can't refuse

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