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However if linux had a license like THIS one rather than the General Commie Virus(GPL) it could have still been a free community project but not have gotten into the mess it is in now. (And it is STILL in that mess no matter what your
single slide out of many shows.)

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Because of certain features of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE contribute to intellectual property infringement litigation that can have a devistating effect on open source software and allow source codes under it to transfer too easily into the wrong hands such as terrorists and the nations who aid them the need for a new type of Open Source License has arrisen. The FREEDOM PUBLIC LICENSE is designed to both protect the right to make source code free those who wish to bug fix, modify and customize their own software and support community style development of software while being friendly to proprietary closed source developers as well. The FREEDOM PUBLIC LICENSE is also designed to allow for the cross licensing of both open source codes and patents under it and proprietary source codes and patents so that infringement litigations can be avoided in most cases and to allow government restrictions on the on the nations and organizations who have access to open source code from servers in their soverign territories.
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However if linux had a license like THIS one rather than the General Commie Virus(GPL) it could have still been a free community project but not have gotten into the mess it is in now. (And it is STILL in that mess no matter what your single slide out of many shows.)

I'm sorry CS, I don't follow you here. SCO has filed a suit against IBM, but has not yet challenged the terms of the GPL or any other open source license in court.

However, they have made press releases that conclusively state that the GPL is invalid under U.S. copyright law and that many business and governmental agencies owe them royalties. Neither of these claims have been supported by pending lawsuit much less proven in a court of law. The FTC frowns on the practice of demanding payment based on unproven claims.

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