> Yes, developers give away some rights if they develop under GPL, This is simply not true. If I develop my software and publish it under the GPL, I give away NONE of my freedoms.
If I base my software on the work of others, then my work must align itself with the original project. Its very easy to ignore the work that comes before us. The GPL is nothing more than a mechanism for making sure that people stay honest. You write your code, you own it. If you take someone else's code, then you are building on their foundation and have to live with the constraints by which they made it available to you. Developers do not give up rights with the GPL, they simply are forced to decide. Developers decry the GPL because they don't want to use the license of they code that they use but have not written/own. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
