From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 15 15:58:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA25900 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:58:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA25879 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:58:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA21464; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 16:58:02 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 16:58:02 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199607152258.QAA21464@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's so evil about GPL In-Reply-To: <199607152244.SAA08783@goldman.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <199607142351.BAA13294@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199607152244.SAA08783@goldman.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >>> . You are forced to become a software redistribution institution > >>> once you have modified some of the source code, and intend to > >>> redistribute your modified work. .. > >> Er... Well, to redistribute your work, you normally have to be > >> allied with a software distributor, right? ... > > No. Not if you are a small company serving a dozen or so small > > customers. It's not your primary interest to distribute software, > > but to provide solutions then. > > Then you need only provide the source to those. If they choose to > redistribute, it is their obligation to provide your source, no longer > yours. So you become a 'software redistribution institution' to a small number of folks instead of a large number of folks. :) Nate