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On Sunday 22 February 2004 09:50 pm, Jay Maynard wrote: |
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> > Nobody's forcing anybody to put their code under one |
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> > license or another. |
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> It is the explicit aim of the GPL to have all software, everywhere, under |
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> any conditions, licensed under their anticommercial terms. |
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The GPL does not prevent commercial sales of software. It only guarantees the |
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right to modify and redistribute the software by all who have it. |
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Proprietary software denies people these rights so the GPL's prevention of |
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such downstream licensing is a good thing. |
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The GPL is non-free in a way which preserves rights, but the problems come in |
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when other reasonable terms wish to be applied to software such as |
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attribution or more strict patent licensing (such as Apache's new license) or |
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one wants to use code in a project that is not licensed to preserve rights |
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(BSD). |
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Ideally, the GPL would be unneccesary and only be a problem, but unfortunately |
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everything is not ideal and such licensing is needed to preserve rights that |
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are not guaranteed by governments. |
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