On Friday 17 August 2018 00:35:30 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 07:48:28PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Basicly, Brian, IMNSHO, the gpl is saying TANSTAAFL, a concept their > > MBA degree professors never explained. I'm afraid I have to chuckle > > everytime I see it being enforced. An MBA degree means they've had > > common sense beat out of them. And they willingly subjected > > themselves to it. > > Now, I'm up to mock an MBA as much as anyone, but every MBA who > paid any attention knows what the GPL is. Here are the words > that they can understand, should it come up: > > The GPL is a simple and straightforward blanket IP license which > requires an unusual form of payment: the consideration on your > part is to publish the entire codebase of derivative works, at > no additional cost, to anyone who receives such a derivative > work from you in any manner, under the same GPL license. In > addition, there is a royalty-free patent usage grant provision > for derivative works, and a few other minor explanations. > > But in this particular case, I think it was probably a spammer > or scammer looking for targets. > > -dsr- Entirely probable.
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