[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> > Wei Mingzhi wrote: >> >> If you don't allow me using your code, then I don't allow you >> >> using our code too. That's just fair. >> > >> > I don't know. To me it seems like a way to slowly strip owners of >> > their rights to their original works. >> >> There is nothing "slow" involved here. If you use any >> copyrightable part of GPL licensed software without negotiating a >> different license, you are bound by the full GPL. As with any >> other license. >> > > As more code becomes GPL then the amount of non-GPL code shrinks,
Code does not shrink. GPLed code does not take independent code over. It just has its own growth laws. > and since the agreement requires one to make all original works > containing GPL code GPL, it goes up fast. Of course it depends on > how many people use the GPL code, though. Not really. It depends on how many people _extend_ the GPLed code, and then it also depends on how many of such changes actually get merged in a common code base. >> > Your code is your ORIGINAL WORK, and I don't see why I have to >> > have you make it free to me. >> >> You are free to license your _own_ software under any license you >> want, including giving them into the Public Domain. >> > > But *why* do you (or whoever came up with this GNU thing or > whatever) want to tell people to do things with _their_ code if they > use _your_ (GNU) code? Because it is fair. You want to make use of my code, I want to make use of yours. We both profit. > I know I can, and that's why I don't like GNU, because using the GNU > code "forces" you "automatically" (note the quotes -- if you defy > the "force", ie. the terms, you are breaking the law, it's your > choice to use the code so it's not automatic in the sense you might > think I'm using) to make your originals that use it GNU. I just > don't understand why it's made that way! Because that profits everybody in the same way. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
