On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, John Plocher wrote:
I am (thankfully) not a lawyer. I don't speak for Sun. YMMV...
Ditto, and ditto.
It also follows that nobody else (other than you) can do so either.
That depends on whether I got you to grant me reciprocal rights to
your work when I granted you rights to my work.
The implication of this is that, without your permission, *nobody*
can combine our program with GPL'd stuff to make a derivative work,
because the result would be required to be licensed under the GPL,
and your parts of the program *can't* be.
Right.
Note that that has nothing to do with your or I (other than that we
chose to distribute only binaries, ie "non-Free" software). It has
everything to do with *other* authors having chosen that their code
not be used in this manner.
As is their right, as it was for "us" to licence our code as we
wished.
GPL'd code: If I "want it" bad enough, then I'll find a way to
force you to license your stuff under the GPL, or I will
reimplement it myself or I will find a way to do without it.
Until then, I am not welcome in RMS's sandbox.
Sure but you don't *have to* play in the sandbox. You choose to.
This isn't some reprehensible act of blackmail. ;) It's authors
choosing to do what they want with their *own* code, in their own
self interest. That "their" self-interest is not fully co-incident
with our self-interests is not surprising. Indeed, come to that, your
interests likely are not completely co-incident with mine either[1].
It is this "all or nothing" requirement that makes it difficult for
complex IP systems like Solaris to "go GNU", and why there is so
much hope about GPLv3...
Well, Solaris already went "Free Software" last year I thought. ;)
regards,
--paulj
1. I predict we'll have a huge falling out in a few years time over
exactly what the licence terms were for "our" code. ;) You will swear
blind that I never stipulated that you would owe me per-unit
royalties! :) And I'll refuse to give you your llama back ("You said
he was a gift, not a loan!").
regards,
--
Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 64A2FF6A
Fortune:
A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
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