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The General Public License (GPL) is like the Communist Manifesto of software - it's all about seizing the means of production and distributing it to the masses. Any code released under the GPL must be open-source and free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute.
Example
"I was gonna use this dope new library in my DeFi project, but then I found out it was released under the GPL. Now I gotta share all my code with the plebs and let them fork my project whenever they want. This is why we can't have nice things in crypto."
"The GPL is like the opposite of a prenup - instead of hoarding all your assets for yourself, you gotta share them with everyone else. It's like a blockchain marriage - what's mine is yours, and what's yours is also mine."
