Is it OK to use my rewritten GNU program commercially?

2007-07-13 Thread Inventor
Hi, I have released my sports prediction software under the GNU GPL, folks are using it, and I plan to add the latest features for a 'final' release. The first version is a klugy hodgepodge of code with only a command line interface, and now that I am learning the beginnings of OOP and CGI, I am

Re: Are Microsoft’s patent lawyers really this dumb?

2007-07-13 Thread John Hasler
Alfred M. Szmidt writes: > Sure I can, I am talking about the actual _LICENSE_. The FSF even sells > nicely printed copies of it, did you know that? You mean the license _document_. The license is an abstact bundle of rights. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Are Microsoft’s patent lawyers really this dumb?

2007-07-13 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Not really. You can use it to license commercial software, but >since the demand is that it is "to be licensed as a whole at no >charge", while you can charge for a copy of the _software_, the >license itself is not a