Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 05, 2004 12:41 AM
What if I've done 95% of the product and used 5% GPL code, and want to dual-license it? I can't, I have to give everything away for free. And I mean unrestricted access to 95% of the product source code developed by myself over which I have absolutely no control after adding a single GPL line. A good reason not to touch it with a ten foot pole.
If GPL *was* free I'd be able to use it to do whatever I want. But I can't. I'd rather develop BSD code so at least someone can do something useful with it.
If someone would do just a small fix over my BSD code and sell it, I could easily give him a run for his money. So the product would have to be really much better. Competition generates innovation. BSD *feeds* competition. GPL *kills* it.
"If you give your copyright rights to the FSF, the only things you lose are your copyright rights, including the right to dual-license. But you're guaranteed that the code will be released under the GPL for all eternity to come, so you haven't lost much of anything if you weren't planning on using multiple licenses."
Precisely, you lose the right to change license. Because you gave your IP rights and lost decision power over your own code.
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Re:Just another GPL zealot looking for freebies.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 05, 2004 12:41 AMIf GPL *was* free I'd be able to use it to do whatever I want. But I can't. I'd rather develop BSD code so at least someone can do something useful with it.
If someone would do just a small fix over my BSD code and sell it, I could easily give him a run for his money. So the product would have to be really much better. Competition generates innovation. BSD *feeds* competition. GPL *kills* it.
"If you give your copyright rights to the FSF, the only things you lose are your copyright rights, including the right to dual-license. But you're guaranteed that the code will be released under the GPL for all eternity to come, so you haven't lost much of anything if you weren't planning on using multiple licenses."
Precisely, you lose the right to change license.
Because you gave your IP rights and lost decision power over your own code.
"God. Sometimes I think people will never get it."
I hope you're right<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
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