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Yes, I got the point, always read the license terms but in the end do click the "I agree" button. However, why should we even read the GNU license?
*Plot build up: I am installing Blender and even Blender (a FREE SOFTWARE) is asking me to accept their terms.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I did not accept to read this. Please delete.
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: (a FREE SOFTWARE) is asking me to accept their terms.
Even software that is "free" comes with terms, in respect to limiting the things you can do with it. Free is also only pointing toward initial cost of acquiring the license, not the cost of ownership, nor does it mean that it is without copyright - but that's not the point.
Fact is, if I provide work for free, I can still limit what you are and are not allowed to do with it. It is what drives this site; most of us choose the CP-license, which is about sharing without prohibiting commercial activities. It would still be crappy if your work was "free of rights", as opposed to "free to use" - would mean that other sites would plagiarize your article, killing your incentive to write them in the first place.
Now, I'd strongly recommend to learn the difference between GPL and LGPL, as it might make a slight difference in who owns your code; it may upset a boss or two if you get it wrong 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I can still maintain the delusion that there is a limit to what you are and are not allowed to do with it.
FTFY
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Because, at the end of the day, who doesn't enjoy reading legalese? Pull up a chair, pop some popcorn, and don't sell yourself short on the good family fun that can come from reading paragraphs of gibberish pertaining to exactly what you can and cannot do with said software under certain events such as the end of the world[^].
Jeremy Falcon
modified 14-Jan-16 10:34am.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: the good family fun
Unless it's from Apple, hide the kids! 
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You trust Apple too much 
-- Log Wizard - a Log Viewer that is easy and fun to use!
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I hate license agreements. I often skim over them to see if they actually state anything unusal beyond the legelese equivalent of "Don't hack me", but they rarely do. Why does it take huge walls of text and one hour of wrestling with unholy word constructs to tell me that? I hate the lawyers guts, and their spouses', childrens', parents' too, and as well any parts of government that actually allow such abusive practices. I wish them all a long and painful license agreement to sign the next time they try to use their mobile, TV set, car, toaster, or toilet paper.
I could buy a sharp and long kitchen knife without having to sign an agreement saying that I shouldn't use it against a hapless license agreement author, but I do have to sign a 5 page agreement of legalese to purchase a text editor? Really?
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Stefan_Lang wrote: I could buy a sharp and long kitchen knife without having to sign an agreement saying that I shouldn't use it against a hapless license agreement author, but I do have to sign a 5 page agreement of legalese to purchase a text editor? Really?
Users of illegal media (software, movies, music) are more severely punished than serial killers.
There's a lobby for media.
So yes, really.
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Symmetry is a beautiful thing, Sander!
Hooters come to mind. Like martinis, one is not enough, three are too many. Symmetry is everything, not to mention balance...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: Hooters come to mind
Owls are symmetric[^]?
Roger Wright wrote: Like martinis, one is not enough, three are too many
But three are still symmetric 
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If hooters are symmetrical they ain't real!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I'm an engineer, not a mathematician; hooters are close enough to symmetrical for practical purposes. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I haven't gotten my daily news for three days now. What's up?
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Well, no news is good news!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I got it very late for the past few days.
I usually read it before going to work in the morning, I just missed that at 1 PM
Back in my day I got a complaint when the paper arrived late
Then again, I was late because rain/snow/storm/late delivery/overslept (nah I didn't do that )...
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Ygnaiih wrote: What's up?
-- David Bowie passed away from cancer.
-- Leslie Nielsen was spotted buying potatoes at the local supermarket.
-- Dalek Dave is running for president of the United States.
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Slacker007 wrote: Dalek Dave is running for president of the United States.
I want to see the birth certificate!
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Corporal Agarn wrote: I want to see the birth certificate!
No need to. His mother was born in New York, in a past life. All good. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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Maybe this happened again?[^]
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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I found the problem. My agency's Outlook has a clutter file. For what ever reason my Daily News was going into the clutter file.
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Ygnaiih wrote: Outlook has a clutter file
Delete the Clutter folder. Empty Deleted Items folder. Close then open Outlook. Behold you now have a Clutter folder again. 
Ah don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket
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I'm not kitten around – cat puns freak meowt!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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