Re: [OS:N:] Another multiple response

On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 03:17, [email protected] wrote:
> With all due respect, Dee-Ann, as an author of over 100 free and open 
> source programs licensed under the GPL, I understand from years of 
> personal experience how much work goes into such creations.

You protected your work with the GPL. So you respect the author's right
to decide what you can and cannot to do with their work. The author's
right to the destiny of their own creation is superior to the right of
the viewer to consume, copy, rework and redistribute that work, unless
they declare it otherwise.

I think Dee-Ann is right on to ask that folks not confuse an industry
accustomed to renting you limited use of creative works, with the
creators of that work. 

There's room enough in the spectrum of rights between "Public Domain and
Trade Secret" for a balanced answer.

--jeremy


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