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Re: gpl as applied to ideas
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: gpl as applied to ideas |
Date: |
Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:03:59 +0100 (CET) |
I am about to make my own proprietary desktop program on MS Windows XP
using MS .Net 1.1.
Sorry, we cannot help you. Helping you would cause harm to society,
non-free software is a pest, and we are trying to eradicate it. You
should make your program free software. Please see
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html for
details about what we are trying to do.
However, I have one problem with GPL: it talks of source code,
linking, calling, mixing/combining free/non-free code and finally
free/non-free documents. But nobody seems to be talking of
concepts, ideas and layouts.
Ideas are not covered by any law, having them covered would be quite
bad.