From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 23 12:49:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F87E15396 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:49:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11qMsJ-000FiP-00; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 20:49:19 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA60773; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 20:49:18 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 20:49:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Brett Glass Cc: rdls@jezebel.demon.co.uk, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991123130316.04607100@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Brett Glass wrote: >What's more, if that person makes money from a derived work, his profit >(if any; most software companies don't ever make money) will likewise >stem only from HIS improvements -- because the base functionality is >already available for free. Correct me if i'm wrong, but you are referring here to the BSD license, correct? Then what can the original author charge for? How is the basic functionality 'free' if it is sold commercially? -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message