This is an important point, and I'd like to clear this misconception about the GPL:
On Monday 07 May 2007 12:37, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > [snip] > The original statement did not make this distinction. Had > you said that the authors not being helped by the GPL are closed > source folks, I would agree. I, personally, see no reason why my > work should facilitate closed source people exploiting the end users > -- and thus see no negatives of this aspect of the GPL. If people > want to make money -- more power to them. They just can;t use _my_ > work to make money for _them_. Further correction: I can use your GPL'd software to make money, as can anyone else. I do make money out of it, as a matter of fact. The GPL doesn't prevent or even deprecate making money out of software anywhere. The only thing it prevents is making software closed and THEN making money out of it. We're not in -ism-land yet. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
