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I never said that corporations cannot and should not be given legal priveleges by the states and federal government. I do not believe that corporate entities of any kind should receive protection as individuals. The reason that we have so much corruption in politics is that corporations whether they be companies, unions or other types have a legal right to give money and be active in politics. Just one example of why I don't want them to receive individual constitutional rights.

And you are mistaken about the GPL code. It is individually owned. Linus Torvalds could at any time remove his contributions from the Linux source tree, move the code to the BSD license and build a new Linux kernel under the BSD license. You retain the copyright to your code, but you agree to let others use it under the GPL. You are free to take your own code and dual license it. That's what TrollTech does with QT. They could legally take out outside contributions to the GPL code and still make releases that are proprietary under another license.

And you are mistaken about the GPL code. It is individually owned. Linus Torvalds could at any time remove his contributions from the Linux source tree...

I don't think so. But I'll humor you for the moment... Show me the part in the GPL that allows Linus to remove his contributions from the kernel. And while you're at it, explain to everyone what they're supposed to do with their RedHat CD's that contains Linus' kernel source... Mail it back to Linus?