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. > > GNU software is not open source, it is free software. The open source > movement is a completely different movement, please do not confuse the > two. You can make money making free software, G10 works on the GNU > Privacy Guard, there are several consulatant firms that do free > software exclusivley, for example the maintainer of the GNU Shishi > project. Daniel from the looks gets paid for doing free software > work. RMS made his liviving for the first few years by selling tapes > of Emacs and adding features for a fee. Use your imagination. >
But GPL software due to the nature of the license requires the code be released and that's what I mean by "open-source". > > 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? > > Again, you do not give up any right to the original code, you are > still the copyright holder of it. If you use someone elses code, then > you must abide by that liecnse; in this case the GNU GPL. That's what I mean! If I want to use the other person's code I have to agree to the license, which requires me to give up some rights, to "pay" so to speak, or not use it at all. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
