Quoting Diego Iastrubni, from the post of Mon, 26 Feb: > > We had this conversation a few weeks ago. You can always double license the > application you develop, and in fact you can have a proprietary GPL > application. Some examples:
the examples you gave are not "proprietary GPL apps" they are free software, and thus non-proprietary, period. where they differ is, the owner of the copyright on the product is also offering a way for you to turn it into a part of your proprietary product by buying a limited license that is not GPL, to the same code. > I even remember about a Java application which was developed by one single > man > and a company hired him to continue the work of his application for them. > They bought a GPL application. they bought the time of a developper. seperately, they could also make him an offer and buy the copy rights to the product and re-publish it as non-GPL. that's a separate issue. In such a case, btw, the older copies of the GPL code already released are already out there and they can't do a thing about it. > There are always workarounds for the GPL license, and you can make it "non > free" on some situations. not if you are not the original owner of the copyrights. > GPL does not provide you "full freedom". Whatever that means. care to explain? > Currently GPL is used by some companies to release code for > the "linux community" and still be able to hide behine the GPL and continue > their market domination on the market they gain money from Windows users, and > the closed source market. of course. but unless you are talking about static linking with something non-free, they can't stop you from the taking their free Linux source and porting it to other platforms yourself and redistribute it. you can even sell support for that product for those other platforms and not give them back a dime, the GPL allows it. -- A special effect Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
