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From: d87-mal@byse.nada.kth.se (Mats Löfkvist)
Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes
In-Reply-To: peter@NeoSoft.com's message of Mon, 19 Apr 1993 12:14:11 GMT
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In article <C5qCnn.5Kw@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
"Ownership" of intellectual property comes down to the ability to control its
distribution. If the FSF controls the distribution of my code, they own it.
YOU choose to let the FSF control the distribution of your code when you
decide to use FSF tools, code or whatever that makes the GPL to apply to
your code.
Just about everyone but the FSF has quit this sort of rubbish. Some require
a license fee for their runtimes, but that's about it.
Or YOU choose to pay five bucks for each copy of your program you sell if you
decide to use a tool with such a license.
What's the problem? Different licenses for different purposes. One to ensure
source availability, another to ensure financial gain. If you don't like one
of them, don't use it.
Why is it so hard to understand that code from the FSF comes with a licence
you have to accept if you want to use it? Is it because the code "is there"
in front of you, looking so available? Most people annoyed by the GPL terms
sounds like children in a candy store when they are told the candy is not
free to take just because it is lying there under their noses.
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Mats Lofkvist Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
d87-mal@nada.kth.se My words but a whisper - your deafness a SHOUT.