> But that is how open source works. Same applies to, for example, Apache. > > So, what stops me (or William or whoever) doing that? I should integrate my > own modifications to every new version of Sage. After several Sage versions > and many own additions it would propably be quite tricky. So best business > plan could well be using official version, and maybe sometimes doing some > own additions available to all.
Nothing stops you, and I don't see a single place in this conversation where I said that you were not allowed to. To make it clear: you are allowed to. > An open source developer might be a jew making a draw program. An open > source user might be a neo-nazi drawing swastikas. Any open source developer > must accept this. As a Jew, I contributed to a GPL software which may someday be used for the extermination of all Jews without breaking its license. I am aware of the fact, and I kept on contributing while fully aware of it. Nathann P.S.: In case somebody misread: William is legally entitled to sell SMC P.S.2: Really, he has the right to. The GPL allows it. I swear. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
