Re: GNU licenses

[mike4ty4]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Perhaps, if I was planning a commercial project. Of course if I was
>    making a program that I had no profit plans for whatsoever,
>    nothing, I wouldn't mind GPLing it.
>
> The GNU GPL doesn't prohibit commerical explotation of software;
> infact if a license does not allows such explotation it is considered
> non-free.
>

I want to maximize profit, as I _need_ this money. By the way, can
one make decent money selling open-source GNU software? How
good an income can you get? If it's good then maybe GNU isn't
as bad as I think.

>    > Why is it so difficult to grasp the idea that you cannot demand a
>    > right for yourself that you are not prepared to grant to others?
>
>    Because I could grant someone a right they wanted for themselves
>    WITHOUT demanding that they grant it to others. But I suppose
>    everyone is different, and I suppose you can decide to force people
>    to opensource (and _potentially_ VASTLY decrease the market-value)
>    or not use your code.
>
> Nobody here is forcing anyone, be it to make it free software or even
> open source.  If you wish to use the code, you must abide the license.
> You are completely free to not use the code.
>

Well OK.

>    Everyone's been saying that I've got all rights to MY ORIGINAL CODE
>    but I don't in this case!
>
> You have the rights to your own code, what you do not have the right
> to is the other persons code which is licensed under a specific
> license.  If you wish to use that code, then you must abide by that
> license.

In other words, give up some of the rights to that original code,
namely
the ability to create non-GPL works from parts of it (if I go and
distribute
the combined work). Right?