Re: Is it OK to use my rewritten GNU program commercially?

2007-07-14 Thread Inventor
On Jul 14, 12:52 pm, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suggest that you refer to the GPL FAQ which answers your > question:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html Thanks, I didn't see a question that explicitly addressed my particular situation, but some questions were really clo

Re: Are Microsoft’s patent lawyers really thisdumb?

2007-07-14 Thread Alexander Terekhov
"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote: > >> Sure I can, I am talking about the actual _LICENSE_. The FSF >> even sells nicely printed copies of it, did you know that? > >You mean the license _document_. The license is an abstact bundle of >rights. > > You deserve a cookie for nitpicking. :

Re: Is it OK to use my rewritten GNU program commercially?

2007-07-14 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I suggest that you refer to the GPL FAQ which answers your question: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: Are Microsoft’s patent lawyers really this dumb?

2007-07-14 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> Sure I can, I am talking about the actual _LICENSE_. The FSF > even sells nicely printed copies of it, did you know that? You mean the license _document_. The license is an abstact bundle of rights. You deserve a cookie for nitpicking. :-) ___

Re: Are Microsoft’s patent lawyers really thisdumb?

2007-07-14 Thread Alexander Terekhov
David Kastrup wrote: [...] > GPLv2: But it is "newly incompatible" with the current Guh-NÜ PL, dak. "These are licenses newly incompatible with the GPL version 3: GNU General Public License version 2" (This page was last modified 03:37, 2 June 2007. This page has been accessed 4,845 times. C

Re: Are Microsoft’s patent lawyers really this dumb?

2007-07-14 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote: >> >>"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>Not really. You can use it to license commercial software, but >>>since the demand is that it is "to be licensed as a whole at no >>>c

Re: Are Microsoft’s patent lawyers really this dumb?

2007-07-14 Thread Alexander Terekhov
"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote: > >"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Not really. You can use it to license commercial software, but >>since the demand is that it is "to be licensed as a whole at no >>charge", while you can charge for a copy of the _software

Re: Is it OK to use my rewritten GNU program commercially?

2007-07-14 Thread Alexander Terekhov
I suppose you mean that you won't like me buying a single copy of your wonderful rewritten GNU program and starting sharing your work left and right for free or just a bit cheaper than you. What you want is "unethical", says the GNU Pope. "Live cheaply," he said, offering some free advice. "Don