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[Nick Sabalausky]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
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> Leandro Lucarella:
>> Yes, I don't think "copying with 'cosmetic changes'" works, legally
>> speaking. Otherwise everybody would be doing it.
>
> If 10% of changes is not legally enough, they LLVM dev can copy it and 
> then change the 15% of it or even 20%. There must exist a minimum amount 
> of differences between two blocks of code that allows them to be legally 
> considered different, otherwise GNU is worse than a software patent.
>

Many people do consider the GPL evil.