From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Tue Mar 27 14:25:14 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 27 Mar 2001 22:25:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 7916 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2001 22:24:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 27 Mar 2001 22:24:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta2 with SMTP; 27 Mar 2001 22:24:12 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id RAA04763 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:31:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:31:10 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] jbofi'e version 0.36 released Message-ID: <20010327173109.R11825@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from DoubleC@acc.co.nz on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:19:16AM +1200 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:19:16AM +1200, Chris Double wrote: > I don't necessarily agree with what the GPL is meant to achieve but if > a commercial software vendor wants to use GPL software they can > always try and negotiate a seperate license with the software author. > Some authors who release their code under GPL do this to prevent free > commercial usage but leave the door open for receiving money by > negotiating commerical licenses. Wow. Umm... I am ashamed to admit that this never occured to me (that you could independently renegotiate the license with a single other entity). -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP