Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:

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>>  know what proprietary means.  if you don't

>> understand the big words, stop using them.  you also totally failed to

>> comprehend the license.

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> No, I understood it quite well.

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Yes, no I did not understood it nor not quite never well.

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>> what i find even more hysterical is your claim that running a 5 year

>> old rogue clone is needed to get your work done.

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> What I find even more hysterical is your lack of english comprehension,

> for what I said is that restrictions against commercial usage make it

> proprietary, not that I need that piece of software.

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> Rui

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Last time I tried to download VirtualBox emulator (GPL'd), they would

not let a company download the binary compiled versions of VirtualBox

for commercial use... i.e. they were restricting my commercial use of

the software only to source code copies, which is obnoxious and

restrictive. To me and 99 percent of other companies, only the binaries

are the things we care about for the working emulator package. Having

the source code is an additional nice extra to have, but not essential.
Personal users are of course allowed to download the VirtualBox binaries

- but companies are forced to download the obnoxious sources only.
GPL software can therefore be proprietary software (since your

definition of proprietary software is restricting the commercial users).

Several GNU softwares out there restrict the binaries from companies or

restrict other factors.. such as documentation and consulting (which

could be recorded on audio tapes and copied millions of times instead).