Re: EASTERBROOK's "quick look" on the GPL and Wallace's claim

[Richard Tobin]

In article <4554AA17.A79FC867@web.de>,
Alexander Terekhov  <terekhov@web.de> wrote:

>> No, it's a "no".  You don't have to surrender any rights, because you
>> didn't have them in the first place.  It just doesn't give you the
>> right you seem to want.

>Copyright law gives it, stupid. "Copyright law gives authors a right to 
>charge more" (attribution: EASTERBROOK). 

Copyright law does not give you a right to distribute derivative
works, so it certainly doesn't give you a right to charge for them.

-- Richard
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