RE: Clear up my License information

> 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?

Not getting any money as compensation, no.
Not getting the modifications "for free" as compensation, yes.

Transgaming not releasing their code is one of the primary
things this debate have been about.

> 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.

It is only indirectly about money.
 
> > 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.

The point is that you indeed had the choice to sell it yourself and
since you didn't you would only suffer from your choice and only your
choice. Fairness doesn't come into it, if you see it from that point
of view.

A copyright law that didn't support copyleft (and it is not entirely
clear the current one does either) might be preferable for a number
of reasons. Note that normal sale of copyrighted work almost wouldn't
be effected at all even under such circumstances.