On Aug 25, 2:48 am, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mike3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <snip> > > Oh, so you can go and profit off of the other person's work, > > _provided_ that it stays free and GPL. > > Not really. You can keep the result all to yourself, profit from its > use, and let nobody have it. >
Not really? I thought you could sell or profit off a GPL program, since the GPL says nothing about not obtaining money it just says all copies/modifications have to be under GPL. So, boiled down, the answers are this: 1. It's immoral to profit off of your own work *by restricting the freedom of the user through proprietary license*, according to FSF morals. 2. It's illegal to relicense GPL-licensed software of others under proprietary terms to third parties, by the terms of the GPL and The Law. (Not to mention it's also immoral under (1) as well w/ FSF morals. And also because you break the law doing it and you're supposed to follow the law.) Is that all right? _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
