JEDIDIAH <[email protected]> wrote: >> The renumeration they demand is contractual control of other's >> exclusive copyrights -- which is clearly illegal. Only in Stallman's > > You don't get the priveledge of creating derivative works off > of other's property. The GPL is by no means unique in this regard. > > The FSF is no more "communist" in this respect than Microsoft or IBM.
Or J.K. Rowling for that matter. The harry potter lexicon for example. It was a derivative work and the author objected to it. Took it to court and won. -- | [email protected] | | | Andrew Halliwell BSc | "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't | | in | suck is probably the day they start making | | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge | _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
