"amicus_curious" <[email protected]> writes: > "Peter Köhlmann" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> amicus_curious wrote: >> >>> >>> "David Kastrup" <[email protected]> wrote in message >>> news:[email protected]... >>>> >>>> Try reading the GPL sometime. >>>> >>> Well, is it valid? In any case, if the author chooses to give it away >>> gratis, then the option of charging for it is no longer applicable. >> >> Giving it "away" at no cost does not mean giving up copyright. >> And you extremely dishonest POS know that quite well >> -- > You seem confused by all this. Certainly once the author has made the > grant of gratis use and redistribution, he has ceded the right to any > expectation of profit.
Oh nonsense. Multiple licensing, with a cost-free GPL license as one option, has been a viable business model for several different companies. MySQL has run on that model for quite a few years, Trolltech has. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
