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. >
Nor did I say it did. But the profit is not as great with "free" software than as with "non-free" software, right? Or is it? I need a fairly decent profit. Can I get a decent-sized company and a high income (like $100,000/year) selling "free" software? If I sell 10 programs per day at $30 each then I get $300/day and thus $109,500/year avg. Is that possible? > > 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. > Of course, but I'm disputing the terms on which I have to follow to use the code. Haven't you figured that out already? > 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. So then can I do what I described? Can I make a combined work, put that out under GPL (following the license), then take a piece of the _original code_ and put it in a non-GPL work and keep that non-GPL? I should be able to, considering that the original parts are MY code and NOT somebody else's. Am I right? _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
