GPL Enforcement Squad!

I dreamed I was working on a Mac version of the Dillo web browser*. But I mixed it with some sort of commercial code, and the resulting program violated the GPL**. The next thing I knew, someone was shooting at me with a machine gun. I kept trying to walk out of a (hotel?) lobby, but every time someone started shooting. At one point they were in a helicopter, at one point they may have just been up in a building across the street, and at one point they were definitely in a hot air balloon. I’d duck back inside, or put up my hands to get them to stop shooting, but every time I walked back out, they started up again.

* An ultra-small, ultra-fast browser that’s low on features, but runs well even on old hardware.

** The GPL (General Public License) basically says “you can use this source code for your own purposes, but if you distribute the result to anyone, you must do so under the GPL.” The result is you can freely mix and match code from other GPLed programs. If you use someone’s GPLed code in a non-approved manner, then nothing gives you permission to use it, which means you’ve just violated copyright. Of course, in that case you’re far more likely to see a “Hey, stop using our code!” letter than a hit man!