Hi Justin,
take it easy!
I was not criticizing you for anything. apologies if you felt that way.
I was just exploring how the GNU license works. And thanks to you and
lots of other informed posters, I now know it.
BTW, if it was not clear earlier, I was speaking for myself and not Sun.
And sure, you can send me a zillion questions about Sun Community Source
License, but I would not be the right person to answer them.
Also, FYI I am a big fan of the GNU movement and possibly will someday
get around to contributing to it.
inder
Justin Wells wrote:
>
> Well this thread no longer has much to do with WebMacro, but it is
> good exposure for the GPL, GNU project, Free Software Foundation,
> and so forth--WebMacro is under the GNU license.
>
> Quoting Inderjeet Singh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > Hi Justin,
> >
> > I have a (stupid) question:
> >
> > Once you release WebMacro under GPL, then how can you release it again
> > under a (different) commercial license ? Wont you be prohibited to do so
> > by the same GPL ?
> >
> > Sorry to sound harsh, but basically, how can you choose to make money
> > off its derivations but prevent others from doing so ?
> >
> > Just curious,
> > thanks
> > inder
>
> As the author and original copyright holder, I don't need a license to
> use or distribute or license my own work. I can grant other people
> rights to use it as often and in as many different ways as I like,
> it's my property.
>
> I could have released it as a proprietary project, or sold it, or
> whatever. Instead I chose to make it freely available for most
> purposes under the GPL.
>
> I might ask, since you work for Sun, similar questions about
> the Sun Community Source License.
>
> If others want to profit from my work, many can do so thanks to
> the GPL--create commercial sites, corporate sites, etc.; and the
> free software community can, for free, use my work to build more
> free tools and products.
>
> If someone wants to profit from my hard work by making and selling
> software _without_ making it freely available, I don't prevent
> that either. However, that use of my work isn't free. I don't
> charge much, but I do charge something. I'd prefer you built
> free tools--and collect a tax of sorts from those who won't:
> money which pays for the development of free software.
>
> You make it sound like I have done something almost sinister
> by licensing my own work to people for free.
>
> If I were trying to profit off someone else's hard work, and
> preventing others from doing so, that would be different. In fact,
> that is exactly what the GPL forbids: That would be just like
> someone trying to profit off proprietary derivatives of my
> work while preventing others from doing so.
>
> By the way--I don't mind all these questions. Make them as tough
> as you like--many people here may not be familiar with the GNU
> project, and I suspect this whole thread is shining some well
> deserved light on it.
>
> Anyone who has ever benefitted from GCC, Linux, EMACS, the GNU
> debugger, the bash shell, etc., should follow this link and learn
> the history of hose tools, and the GNU General Public License
> which covers them as well as WebMacro:
>
> Free Software Foundation: http://www.fsf.org
>
> Justin
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