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> Therein lies the problem. When dealing with the law, you don't want to be relatively sure that you won't go to prison or won't get sued for $1M, you want to be completely sure.

Not really. Unless you are redistributing it does not affect you at all.

> Something like the GPL is complex and non-standard as far as its interactions with the legal system go

it is widely used, and most people are running some copyleft software anyway, most commonly GPL or a variant such as LGPL. Linux servers, Android phones, routers, web browsers....



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