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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
You clearly dont understand the difference between "use" and "modify". Makes me particularly glad I have that checkbox.
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I understand the difference perfectly. The GPL has nothing whatsoever to do with "using" your program. It doesn't have anything to do with "modifying" it either, as long as I don't redistribute the changes (even if I check the checkbox! It's not a magic checkbox that changes the terms of the GPL when I click it...). Only when I "redistribute" your program (the GPL calls it "conveying") am I bound by the terms of the GPL, and I am
always bound by the terms of the GPL when I redistribute your program, regardless of whether I have checked any checkboxes.
Let's try it this way: what do you think you are preventing me from doing (legally), by having that checkbox, which I would not be prevented from doing (legally) if it had not been there?