Oh, so it's not just to keep the GNU'd software free, but it's also, and this seems more important, to create NEW free software by "force" if you will. If you want to use GNU code in your program then ALL of your ORIGINAL WORK related to that program has to be GNU as well, you can't just publish that code FRAGMENT and keep the rest secret and under your control.
If you use GPL code in your program, then you have accepted the GNU GPL (see section 5 of the GNU GPL). Nothing is was done by force, you explicitly accepted the license by using the GNU GPL licensed code in your program. So then are you saying that this guy, Thomas Biskup, is in VIOLATION of the GNU General Puqblic License because he is withholding the full source code to his computer game, Ancient Domains of Mystery, which is compiled and built (and written!!!) with GNU libraries such as PDCurses?: Please stop confusing "GNU libraries" which is any library part of the GNU system, and libraries licensed under a particular license. PDcurses is not a GNU library. Is PDCurses licensed under the GNU GPL or the GNU Lesser GPL? Ie. it's designed to not only keep the already-free software free but also to force people to make their own _original works_ free if they want to use GNU free code. To me this seems like a way to bring down the software industry and get rid of creator's rights to profit or control their OWN works. Is that what you are saying? Nobody is forcing you, you accepted the license out of your own free will. Cheers. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
