Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:25:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: trevor@jpj.net (Trevor Johnson) Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux Message-ID: <200104181725.KAA16700@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20010418032018.S12981-100000@blues.jpj.net> from "Trevor Johnson" at Apr 18, 2001 04:16:56 AM
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> The only parts of the GPL I see that mention money are: > > You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, > and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange > for a fee. > > and > > [...]give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of > physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable > copy of the corresponding source code [...] > > Are you saying that hiring someone to make changes to a GPL'd program > would violate this second provision? No. He's saying that the intellectual property involved in a 40 line change that results from 3 years of research should be able to result in sufficient revenue to pay for that research. In orther words, brilliant ideas and hard intellectual effort should be rewarded. > > He approves of the trade in disks > > because (a) it furthers his agenda; (b) it allows the FSF to make a bit > > of cash; and (c) he knows that the "parasites" (his own word) who sell > > disks, such as Red Hat, will not be able to make a living as soon > > as high bandwidth connections to the Net are ubiquitous. > > I guess the FSF will have to run off donations when that happens. We will all be dead by the time the wire companies realize they are not content companies, and, even if they were, people don't want to buy content, they want to buy the right to use the wires (and for a reasonable price). I think he doesn't care what happens to the FSF after he's dead and/or after it achieves its design goal. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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