On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:20:23PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 05:05 PM 1/12/2001, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>> > I'll chip in the profits from all the programs I've sold based on Cygwin....
>> > Oops! I guess I shouldn't have said that. Now the GNU police will be
>> > looking for me!;-)
>>
>>Jokes aside, there's no problem if you profit from selling
>>cygwin-based programs (or even cygwin itself). GNU only cares that
>>the programs are modifiable and redistributable, not zero cost.
>
>
>Yes. I want to thank DJ for pointing this out, since I was taking some
>liberties with the notion of the GNU GPL license. DJ has proven time and
>again that he has a deep understanding of the GNU license and has been able
>to put to rest more than one long debate on this list about its function
>(merits, benefits, validity, etc are still subjects that show up here now
>and again as debate topics though!;-)) I, for one, am glad to have
>someone so well equipped in this area on this list. For anyone not sure,
>I do understand that the GNU GPL doesn't prohibit the sale of GNU GPL'd
>software. Also, I don't intend for this thread to open up some discussion
>on the GPL. Finally, I'd like to add that while I think it would be great
>if we took up a collection so we could send Chris on a vacation (the original
>comment that elicited my response), I haven't actually sold any software,
>GNU GPL or otherwise, so I won't be able to contribute the profits to this
>endeavor. Sorry Chris!;-)
That's ok. Recent versions of the Cygwin license have a "If you use
this software you must send 5% of all of your profits to Chris Faylor",
so I should be covered.
I think that this change complies with the spirit of the GPL or at least I
really want it to do so, which is much the same thing.
I haven't seen any checks yet, but I've been monitoring my mailbox constantly
and I'm sure they'll arrive soon.
cgf
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