From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 23 11: 3:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15BFF1531B for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:03:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10548; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:09:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd010449; Tue Nov 23 12:09:29 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA02665; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:02:32 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199911231902.MAA02665@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL To: rdls@jezebel.demon.co.uk Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:02:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <383AB4A4.9B471944@trltech.co.uk> from "Richard Smith" at Nov 23, 99 03:37:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > >I could release my new megasuite under either BSD or GPL and will > > >forfeit monetary gain through either route. > > > > Why is that? You are still allowed to charge for commercial products, > > correct? > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can choose to release _my_ product under > both the GPL and my commercial licence, charging for the latter. > > What the GPL prevents is people taking my GPLed product and charging for > a derived work. It doesn't restrict me in any way as the original > copyright holder. > > That was the point I was trying to make. Actually, it can restrict the original copyright holder from integrating patches sent to him by people whose access to the code was the result of them obtaining it via GPL, since the patches are derivative of the GPL'ed work. > I agree that the GPL is insidious, but you only really notice this when > you look at the community as a whole, with each individual copyright > holder mutually locking each other into the GPL. Case in point of it applying to the original author. 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