On 2009-04-06, Rjack <[email protected]> wrote:
> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>> On 2009-04-06, amicus_curious <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> "JEDIDIAH" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>
>>>>> GPL license offerers are much more akin to homeowners who are trying
>>>>> to rip off their invited guests by tempting them to accept an illegal
>>>>> contract.
>>>> Nice self-nuke on your part there...
>>>>
>>>> You either have a legal contract or you are tresspassing.
>>>>
>>> I don't think that you understood the analogy. Let me put it in what might
>>> be a more understandable form. Say you go to Chicago for the Open Source
>>> Expo and you and your buddies, being new to the big city, are wandering up
>>> State Street and get enticed into a titty bar. Then some sweet honeys cozy
>>> up to you and ask you to buy them a drink. "Sure!", you say, flattered by
>>> such attention. Then later you find that the tab for the girls' drinks are
>>> not what you expected and are some $50 apiece. "Pay up or we will call the
>>> cops!" is what you are told.
>>>
>>> Now that is more akin to the way that unsophisticates are lured into using
>>> the "free" GPL code and then are hammered for their birthright by the SFLC.
>>> "Ignorance is no excuse!", they say, "What's yours is now ours, you have
>>> been touched!"
>>
>> ...except the GPL is very plain and out in the open.
>>
>> The intent of RMS is very clear and rather blunt.
>>
>> The only way you can "misunderstand" anything is if it were
>> your original intent to try and "take advantage" to begin with.
>>
>> The terms are by no stretch of the imagination hidden.
>>
>> Neither is the intent of the proprietor.
>>
>
> Boldness and clarity of purpose does not make that purpose legal.
...then the whole situation reverts to "straight property law".
You're attempt to have it both ways just wont fly.
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