Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Nor did I say it did. But the profit is not as great with "free" > software than as with "non-free" software, right? Or is it? I need > a fairly decent profit. Can I get a decent-sized company and a high > income (like $100,000/year) selling "free" software? If I sell 10 > programs per day at $30 each then I get $300/day and thus > $109,500/year avg. Is that possible? > > Sure, why not. RedHat makes a couple millions a year. >
Whoa!!! > > Nobody here is forcing anyone, be it to make it free software or > > even open source. If you wish to use the code, you must abide > > the license. You are completely free to not use the code. > > Of course, but I'm disputing the terms on which I have to follow to > use the code. Haven't you figured that out already? > > If you do not wish to follow the terms of the license, don't use the > work. > And I did not say I had to use the work. The license does not force one to use the work. What I was disagreeing with was the terms of the license and I wondered if there was something "wrong" with them and wanted to debate for a change to the license, so that future GPL programs might not have had as disagreeable terms associated with them. But I guess it works OK the way it is. > So then can I do what I described? Can I make a combined work, put > that out under GPL (following the license), then take a piece of > the _original code_ and put it in a non-GPL work and keep that > non-GPL? I should be able to, considering that the original parts > are MY code and NOT somebody else's. > > This has been explained to you a billion times now, you are still the > copyright holder of the code you wrote. Of course, but I thought that if I distributed one version of said code (the combined work) under GPL that means I've assigned the original code to GPL and therefore cannot use it in any other non-GPL programs, but I guess since it's my creation I haven't bound myself by making and releasing the combined work, I've just distributed a certain version under a certain license, so I can release *other*1 versions under other licenses. OK. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss