RE: Clear up my License information

Martin Wilck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Mit, 2002-06-05 um 17.08 schrieb Patrik Stridvall:

> This is a much larger problem that I think most people realize,
> since I can see no sane solution to this problem other than the
> obvious one. "If you did't ask for compensation for each copy,
> tough luck, you had your chance, don't come crying because
> you made a bad choice. After all it was your voluntary choice".

Have you ever heard a free software programmer "whine" about that?
If yes, the guy must have really been an idiot. If you write free
software, xGPL or otherwise, you cannot expect to make money buy selling
copies, period. It can happen, but you can't count on it.

> Of course, if so, it would mean that all copyleft licenses were
> essentially equal to the X11 license...

The difference is that the xGPL forbids other people to add something,
change the licence to non-free, and get rich while you get nothing.
In short, it forces people to be fair.

Martin

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