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dankwizard ◴[] No.45133610[source]
Ha, this is the guy that got absolutely butchered in his Reddit post [1] about the same link. OP has extensive history in the piracy subreddits and believes piracy is not theft.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1n87xho/why_i_d...

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dragonwriter ◴[] No.45133713[source]
> OP has extensive history in the piracy subreddits and believes piracy is not theft.

Copyright infringement is neither piracy nor theft, those are both metaphors used largely for the purpose of emotional manipulation.

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scarface_74 ◴[] No.45134884[source]
Why do I think you would feel differently if a company used GPL software in a method that was against the license.
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1. dragonwriter ◴[] No.45135044[source]
I dunno, I’d assume it is projecting your own inability to separate analysis of basic definitions and facts (the question of “in law, are any or all of copyright infringement, piracy, and theft literally the same things?”) from personal political preference (“is rigid adherence to the wishes of the copyright owner desirable for commercially licensed music? is rigid adherence to the wishes of the copyright owner desirable when that is adherence to the terms of a copyleft free software license preferred by the FSF?”) combined with you being really bad at guessing other people’s political opinions (“is dragonwriter a zealous proponent of the FSF in particular or copyleft licenses in general?”) even in a forum where those opinions are on full display?