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title: Free Software, GPL and WordPress
date: 2009-05-23T03:39:04+00:00
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  - WordPress
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# Free Software, GPL and WordPress

If you want to know what the *spirit* of GPL and [Free Software](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software) is, listen to what [Stephen Fry](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfAO0AXMyQU) and [Richard Stallman have to say](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=richard+stallman "Richard Stallmen explains Free Software"). These ideas are so simple and amazing at the same time that no rule or license can fully define them. You have to *sense* them.