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> and the consumer of the GPL software is given the publisher the promise of following the GPL
Wrong.
The "consumer" is trying to gain the limited permission granted in the GPL. He is not trying to "get" the software. He's trying to get permission that are written in the GPL.

For the limited permissions a License grants (which is what he is trying to get) (the copyright holder is NOT offering the copyright itself (copyright transfer)) usually a licensee will pay money.

YOU DO NOT HAVE AN INDEPENDENT PERMISSION TO "violate" THE LICENSE GRANT.
So you "following" the limits in the grant is not you GIVING anything.

Do you get that, faggot?
DO YOU GET THAT?

No you don't.

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Simply: you are trying to buy the permissions listed in the license memorandum.
For this you pay nothing.

You retort that if it weren't for you obeying the license grant; you could distribute, modify, and molest the software in any way you wish.
Which is untrue: Copyright Law grants you zero rights (all rights reserved). And you have a pre-existing duty to follow it.

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Simpler:
A little girl child has a flute.
Should you rape her? And take her flute?

Because you promise not to rape her and enslave her as a bride: you are entitled to that flute. Consideration has been paid. 
According to you.

But is it so?