Jan Ciger wrote: > You are wrong here. GPL gets triggered *only* by the act of > distribution, not by use.
But distribution is a kind of use. So it does put some restrictions on some uses. > It is *not* a "gift economy" - selling > free software is perfectly OK and the whole deal is not about price Not a monetary price, no, but there is a kind of price. The currency is ideas and improvements to the software. > but > about the freedoms as defined in here: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html I don't see anything in the basic freedoms defined there that needs a *viral* licence in order to preserve it. On the other hand, under "Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism", as motivation for using the GPL, several examples are given of improvements released as open source that wouldn't otherwise have been. So as far as I can see, the only reason to use the GPL rather than a more liberal licence is if you want to encourage *future* software to be free, not just what you're releasing at the time. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Soya-user mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/soya-user
