Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Perhaps, if I was planning a commercial project. Of course if I was > making a program that I had no profit plans for whatsoever, > nothing, I wouldn't mind GPLing it. > > The GNU GPL doesn't prohibit commerical explotation of software; > infact if a license does not allows such explotation it is considered > non-free. >
I want to maximize profit, as I _need_ this money. By the way, can one make decent money selling open-source GNU software? How good an income can you get? If it's good then maybe GNU isn't as bad as I think. > > Why is it so difficult to grasp the idea that you cannot demand a > > right for yourself that you are not prepared to grant to others? > > Because I could grant someone a right they wanted for themselves > WITHOUT demanding that they grant it to others. But I suppose > everyone is different, and I suppose you can decide to force people > to opensource (and _potentially_ VASTLY decrease the market-value) > or not use your code. > > Nobody here is forcing anyone, be it to make it free software or even > open source. If you wish to use the code, you must abide the license. > You are completely free to not use the code. > Well OK. > Everyone's been saying that I've got all rights to MY ORIGINAL CODE > but I don't in this case! > > You have the rights to your own code, what you do not have the right > to is the other persons code which is licensed under a specific > license. If you wish to use that code, then you must abide by that > license. In other words, give up some of the rights to that original code, namely the ability to create non-GPL works from parts of it (if I go and distribute the combined work). Right? _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
