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On Monday 23 February 2004 03:33 am, Jay Maynard wrote: |
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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 03:20:05AM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> > The GPL does not prevent commercial sales of software. |
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> Officially, no. Practically, yes: you only get to sell one copy before your |
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> customer turns around and gives it away. |
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Assuming you give them reason to give it away and the people who they give it |
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to don't freely pay anything. Legalizing copying removes the incentive for |
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alot of warez people to copy it in the first place. |
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> |
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> > Proprietary software denies people these rights so the GPL's prevention |
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> > of such downstream licensing is a good thing. |
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> Only if you think that destroying the software industry as we now know it |
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> is a good thing. I beg to differ. |
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The software industry, as far as I'm concerned, only compromises of open |
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source software. Using software for which one does not have the source code |
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is, in addition to other issues which can easilly be dismissed as a matter of |
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opinion, a security hole. (Yes, I am aware compilers can be infected to have |
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undetectable code-worms, but in reality this is impractical to implement) |
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> > The GPL is non-free in a way which preserves rights |
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> Only if you're not a programmer. |
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Usually the reaction is the opposite. The rights it preserves in general only |
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benefit programmers, not non-programmers. Just because most people don't care |
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to tweak with cars (for legitimate reasons) doesn't mean those who do should |
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be denied the right to, does it? |
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> > Ideally, the GPL would be unneccesary and only be a problem, but |
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> > unfortunately everything is not ideal and such licensing is needed to |
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> > preserve rights that are not guaranteed by governments. |
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> Governments don't guarantee rights. They only take them away. |
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Governments exists solely for the citizens. Whether true in practice or not, |
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they should not remove rights. |
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