...and the GPL isn't designed to take away your 'copyright', you maybe mis-understood it:
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We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software.
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also most of the GPL software has comments like this to declare the copyright:
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<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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@PM: "...or if parts of your code are already covered by the GPL, then you agree that ALL parts of your code be bound to the GPL too."
This isn't correct, since the GPL is the license from the software author to the users. So whatever I'm doing with my OWN code isn't "violating" the GPL (i.e., if I downloaded Stefan's GPL code, then Stefan is limiting my use of the code with the GPL, but his OWN code isn't limited to use - if he hasn't convert the bot to a metamod plugin and become limited by Will Day). In other words, if I created a software 100% myself and not using other's GPL code, I can do WHATEVER with the code as I want.
So the fact for Stefan is: he has to release all the Realbot code under GPL, but whatever using his OWN code in other software which doesn't contain OTHERS' GPL code is OK.