Thanks.
You made my point ;-)
--Maarten
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> #Friday 18 January 2002 14:24# Message from Brett Handley:
>
> > > I have changed the license of Rugby from BSD to GPL to gain better
control
> > > about its redistribution.
> >
> > All I can say is, please re-read the GPL, if you know it then please
> > re-consider your decision.
>
> If you don't like him GPLing it, why not talk to him about you getting it
> under a different license? The GPL is the only well known license which
> allows the *author* to control who, where and how any commercial and/or
> closed source entity uses their code, something the BSD does the opposite
of.
> If GPL is a problem for you company then talk to the author. If the author
> wants you to use it, then it ceases to be a problem (the GPL does not
prevent
> individual relicensing)
>
> Then ask why you weren't going to talk to the author about royalties for
> using their code in your commercial product, or their opinion about it
being
> used in a closed source project, in the first place. Because you could get
it
> for free without asking?
>
> Then wonder why people use the GPL instead of BSD. Code released under BSD
is
> open season for any company who wants to make money with your code and
there
> isn't a damn thing you can do about it. With the GPL it is possible to
> negotiate a license under which your code can be used commercially or in a
> closed product. That is the author's right. If Maarten left the code under
> BSD, who knows which company or group could nick it, bastardise it and
sell
> it as their own (aside from Microsoft of course, not that they would do
such
> a thing).
>
> IME a lot of the flak the GPL gets comes from companies who would much
rather
> rip off individuals or groups of coders rather than negotiate terms. It's
too
> much trouble for them to talk to programmers. It's not too much trouble
for
> them to use their code of course. These companies rather have code they
can
> use for free, without having to pay an experienced coder to write it. The
> GPL forces them to talk, and few of them like it.
>
> Quite frankly, I couldn't give a damn about people with that attitude,
they
> deserve all the trouble they get. If they behaved ethically, they wouldn't
> have a problem (and don't give me that old crap about progrmmers using
code
> without knowing it is GPL - the GPL states that code arried by it must say
so
> in the comments at the top. Any programmer who can't read comments has no
> business programming). Computing Ethics is quickly turning into a sick
joke.
>
> Chris
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