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As Pamela Jones of Groklaw explains, a licence is legal permission to do something you wouldn't otherwise be allowed to do. The GPL is a CopyRight licence; it grants you permission from the copyright holder to make and distribute copies of the program.
The GPL is not an End User Licence; "Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope." and further "You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License."
-Since several people in WLUG were/are apparently unsatisfied with my interpretation, I sent an email to the Free Software Soundation
asking for clarification;
+Since several people in WLUG were/are apparently unsatisfied with my interpretation, I sent an email to the FreeSoftwareFoundation
asking for clarification;
>> I've had several people tell me that when I recieve code under the
>> GPL, I do not own it (in the way I might own a book, for example) but
>> that I only have a licence to use it.
