> What if you are not trying to flame :-) I was deliberately avoiding
> specifics and the whole thrust of the line of thought was simply an
> observation about the biological similarities of (some) OpenSource
> licenses and virus's..

Your observation is totally correct. It shows that the GPL is a
carefully created piece of work! Note that most (succesfull)
'organisations' (religions, political parties, mutinationals, etc) use a
similar mechanism.

Wouter van Ooijen

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