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On Friday 25 July 2003 14:54, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > That's were Stallman and the GPL come in: The GPL keeps your work |
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> > available for all. Other licences may be abused. |
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> There is plenty of reason for other licenses, otherwise they would not |
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> exist. For example, if I wanted to create an open source application, |
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> yet also create a feature-enhanced binary only version, a BSD license |
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> would be a perfect choice for me to select. |
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Only if you wanted other people to also be able to create and distribute/sell |
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feature-enhanced binary-only versions without your explicit permission. If |
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you didn't want that the GPL would be perfect for you, because whatever |
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license you choose can't constrain you, only others. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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