I have to disagree. As another example, many people use Eclipse (which is free) as the IDE to build commercial (non-free) software. The Eclipse foundation is happy to give out their software for commercial users.
Not sure if this is the best venue for continuing this conversation. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Makhorin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 8:17 PM To: Meketon, Marc Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Help-glpk] Command-line and GPL > People build commercial applications all the time under Linux. These > applications implicitly call the Linux kernel, and perhaps explicitly > call on a variety of commands (which are really applications) like > "mv", "cp" and so on. Yet these commercial applications are not under > the GPL. I think Luca's situation is similar. I do not think so. Commercial software does not mean non-free (i.e. proprietary) software. On the other hand, if someone does not want to make his software free, he is free to make it non-free. However, in this case it would be fair not to use free software at all, wouldn't be? It seems to me this is the main point of GPL. (Sorry for my bad English.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your cooperation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-glpk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-glpk
