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From: ralle@o-d-s.de (Ralph Leonhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 22:36:02 +0100
Organization: Unlimited Surprise Systems, Berlin
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In article <slrn5etplt.4k3.wnoise@liquefy.ugcs.caltech.edu>,
wnoise@ugcs.caltech.edu (Aaron Denney) writes:
>> My opinion is that if wanting to be able to use `free' code in a
>> commerical product is greedy, then putting your code under the GNU
>> licence so that others can't do this is spiteful.
>
> I agree, that in many cases they don't want to have the rest of their code
> then under the GPL. If you are just linking in a library, then the LGPL
> might work well.
You forget one thing: the GPL uses the intellectual ownership laws to
defend the freedom of th code writers. otherwise it would always happen the same
Someone writes the code, anotherone steals it and the one who wrote it
has no chance to prove that he was the developeir (hmm I have some problems
because english isn't my native language and this is a complicate theme).
That's why the GPL is useful. In a environment where everything is
owned you _must_ be an owner yourself to protect the non-ownership of
something. Its the same paradox as pornography: somebody must see it to
decide, that something is pornographic.
The world is a strange thing ;-)
Ralph