Date: 27 Feb 2003 17:23:10 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O'Reilly apologizes for calling BSD "Free Software" Message-ID: <4xof4xyz9d.f4x@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200302272338.28371.will@unfoldings.net> References: <200302261224.54884.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <3E5E70F8.85AE964@mindspring.com> <200302271306.26357.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <200302272338.28371.will@unfoldings.net>
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Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> writes:
> The point is that the GNU people's idea of "free" is very distorted, in both
> its possible meanings.
An example of that distortion occurs in the GPL where it says
"BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, ...". In fact, its
license on the right to publish derivatives is NOT free of charge; the
charge is a cross-license (under GPL) of the deriver's work, which may
have significant value as recognized in copyright law (17 USC):
The term "financial gain" includes receipt, or expectation of
receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other
copyrighted works.
So don't let anyone tell you that the GPL license is a free-as-in-beer
license, in general. (Some rights are licensed for no cost, I believe,
but some say even those are licensed for the "consideration" of not
holding the licensor liable for damages, bugs, etc.)
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