On 10/26/2011 07:32 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Kagamin"<s...@here.lot> wrote in message
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Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
Licenses like boost exist to allow corporations to make money on free
code
while restricting users. Of course GPL prohibits this.
It's free code. The whole point is to let people go ahead and use it.
Anyone can use GPL, it has no problem with it.
I think you misunderstood my point. What I was trying to say is: If
someone's going to worry about others profiting from their free code, why'd
they even make it free in the first place?
Free software is not software that is gratis. It is software that
respects the freedom of its end users. The problem is not that others
profit from the software. That is okay. The problem is that proprietary
developers may make the end users dependent on their own
proprietary/non-free version, at which point the end users lose control
about their computing. The GPL prohibits that.
