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	GPL 3

jamesgrimes

8-28-2008 12:26 PM

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jamesgrimes says:

This is very interesting. You can have a patent, but if you include GPL 3 licensing, you can't exercise it, as long as you are credited with you previous work to the project?

Cool!

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