Quoting Andy Sy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Sorry, can't help but feel that you're deliberately trying to put > things in a convoluted perspective just to avoid admitting you're > wrong. The situation you're painting is pretty absurd and definitely > counts as a strawman scenario. The moment you agree to distribute > your one-liner under GPL you are obliged to make its sources available > freely, no?
No. Haven't you -=read the GPL yet=-, Andy? You could avoid wasting a great deal of time, if you would bother actually _reading_ the text you're purporting to critique. Other people who elect to _redistribute_ my one-liner would have obligations to grant some form of source-code access to any party under GPL v.2 clauses 3a, 3b, or 3c, whichever one applies. > The rights granted to me under the GPL can never be withheld even if I > choose not to pay you. You're ignoring what I said. I said: "I just wrote a one-line shell script, have declared it to be under the GPL, have given it to nobody whatsoever to date, and am willing to let you have a copy under the GPL _only_ if you send me US $1." Until you send me the $1, I'm not willing to give a copy to you or anyone else. Ergo, by your (rather foolish) criteria for what is a "commercial licence", the GNU GPL is a "commercial licence". Which suffices to demonstrate that your concept as defined is useless and misleading. > And that's where the problem lies. You insist on using a moot > definition when there is a slightly different one that is much more > practically applicable to the situation at hand. In this case, > 'commercial license' means a license whose provisions you have *no > choice* but to pay for in order to take advantage of Please see example above, using the GPL. > ...something that the GPL expressly forbids. You are in error. > Again, sorry, as long as you insist on claiming I don't know what I'm > talking when I know very well I do, you will not hear the end of it. But you've just proved it. Again. > You feel free to give it a rest. Sorry, no. And, please, talk to us after you've at least _read_ and understood what the licence under discussion actually says. -- Cheers, Chaos, panic, & disorder - my work here is done. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
