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From: Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: bcw(4) is gone
Date: Monday, April 9, 2007 - 12:46 pm

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 10:22 -0400, ericfurman@fastmail.net wrote:


Speaking as someone who has read more of the gnu.org and fsf.org Web

sites and (probably) listened to Richard Stallman speeches than most of

the OpenBSD user community:


Nothing in the GPL prohibits commercial use of code released under the

GPL. It is perfectly fine to sell copies of GPLed code at any price.

What is *not* perfectly fine is to sell copies of GPLed code without

allowing access to the source code.


The GPL is not about limiting commerical use of software. The GPL is

about preserving freedom (i.e. "share and share alike"). The GNU Ada

compiler is commerical software, which also happens to be released under

the GPL.


(It is worth noting that even Richard Stallman himself understands that

the GPL and LGPL are not always the best choices. One example of this:

)


--

Shawn K. Quinn
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bcw(4) is gone, Diana Eichert, (Thu Apr 5, 2:55 pm)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, frantisek holop, (Tue Apr 10, 6:19 am)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Reyk Floeter, (Tue Apr 10, 6:31 am)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Doug Brewer, (Tue Apr 10, 7:33 am)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Reyk Floeter, (Tue Apr 10, 5:11 pm)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Marc Balmer, (Thu Apr 5, 3:29 pm)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, , (Fri Apr 6, 10:13 am)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Siegbert Marschall, (Fri Apr 6, 8:50 am)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Darrin Chandler, (Thu Apr 5, 3:24 pm)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Diana Eichert, (Thu Apr 5, 3:16 pm)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Bret Lambert, (Thu Apr 5, 3:36 pm)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Steven Harms, (Thu Apr 5, 4:03 pm)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Daniel Ouellet, (Thu Apr 5, 5:25 pm)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, , (Fri Apr 6, 10:22 am)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Shawn K. Quinn, (Mon Apr 9, 12:46 pm)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Greg Thomas, (Mon Apr 9, 1:39 pm)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Artur Grabowski, (Mon Apr 9, 11:03 pm)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Jeroen Massar, (Mon Apr 9, 1:29 pm)
Re: bcw(4) is gone, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Wed Apr 11, 6:59 am)
GPL is free for forcing people to free code, not free as in ..., Jeroen Massar, (Wed Apr 11, 9:26 am)
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