From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Tue Mar 27 15:35:49 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 23:35:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 87206 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2001 23:35:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 27 Mar 2001 23:35:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta2 with SMTP; 27 Mar 2001 23:35:48 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id SAA05893 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:42:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:42:47 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] jbofi'e version 0.36 released Message-ID: <20010327184247.B11825@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20010327223944.B334@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> <20010327165422.J11825@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from root@megalith.rattlesnake.com on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:32:45PM -0500 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:32:45PM -0500, Robert J. Chassell wrote: > > - Switch to GNU General Public License > > license) > > GAAAAAKKKK! > > Ummm, are you _sure_ that you want to make it impossible for people to > make commercial software based on jbofi'e? > > Robin, what do you mean? > > The GPL *guarantees* that *anyone* can make commercial software based > on jbofi'e. With the GPL, you can sell software, you can give it > away, you can change it, you can do what you like; but you may not > take aways others rights. You are forbidden to forbid. But you also have to distribute the source, which most companies _will_not_do_. The effect is the same. > It is a different kind of license, what the games theory people call a > `sucker license', such as the BSD license, that makes it possible for > one company to take Richard's work and prevent him and you and anyone > else from using a derivation of Richard's work, even if you are the > person making the changes and your changes are somewhat different from > theirs and independently. Remember, the GPL guarantees your and > others freedom. It does not let anyone else take it away, whether > from the author or from anyone else. The BSD license does permit > that: taking even from the author. (That was the intent, since the US > military, the funding agency for BSD, was trying to subsidize US > companies. The authors were paid for `work for hire'.) Ummmm, that doesn't really bother me. -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