Quoting Andy Sy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> ...the GPL states that it would be illegal to inhibit disclosure of
>> modifications made to GPL-licensed code in the event that a derivative
>> of the GPL-licensed code gets distributed, among other provisions.
I'm unclear on whom you're quoting, here, since you didn't say. Were
you quoting yourself?
> In fact, it goes a bit further than that. Once you have given your
> GPL'ed code to someone for $1, you cannot forbid him/her from
> redistributing it for free.
Or for $1000 for that matter! Correct. However, your yardstick for
a "commercial licence" was one where the code was available only upon
paying money. I gave you an example, of a GPLed one-line script.
It's sitting on my hard drive, right this moment. You may not have it
without paying US $1. My offer is open only to you, and under no terms
other than that payment.
By your criteria, that makes the GPL a "commercial licence". Quod erat
demonstrandum.
The point, of course, is that your term as defined is a silly and
useless concept.
> Thus, you could only call the GPL a 'commercial' license in the
> loosest sense.
Nope. No US $1 payment means no script, Andy! That's the offer, and
it's non-negotiable. Take it or leave it.
> Rick Moen's characterization of the phrases 'commercial license' and
> 'closed source' as being 'meaningless'(*) is typical of his habit of
> indulging in pedantry when cornered in a debate.
I believe you misspelled "clarity". ;->
> ...the definitions I have been using/accepting would in fact be the
> more generally accepted/understood ones.
At your leisure, please look up "Bandwagon Fallacy". Thanks.
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