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== Interesting licenses ==

[[http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/|The CRAPL: An academic-strength open source license]]. Open-source license to encourage academics to release low-quality source code.

== Distribution of GPLv2-licensed FOSS via BitTorrent violates the GPLv2 ==

[[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#BitTorrent|The FSF's GPL FAQ]] indirectly states that there may be a GPLv2 violation for distributing GPLv2-licensed works through BitTorrent. Directly says these issues are unambiguously addressed in the GPLv3.

[[http://gplv3.fsf.org/bittorrent-dd2.pdf/view|A comments document from the GPLv3 development process]] discusses the possible GPLv2 violation regarding BitTorrent, and the need to unambiguously address it in the GPLv3.

In April 2010, [[http://11k2.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/totalitare-abmahnpraxis-700-euro-fur-das-downloaden-von-linux/|Lawyer fines user €700 distributing Linux ISOs via BitTorrent]], as user is not fulfilling terms of the GPLv2 and thus committing a copyright violation. The Debian project later posted a press release that this particular [[http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110427|C&D order was a prank]].