Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:37:08 +0000 From: Richard Smith <rsmith@trltech.co.uk> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL Message-ID: <383AB4A4.9B471944@trltech.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911231448550.54785-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Richard Smith wrote: > > >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. 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. Richard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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