"knowingly lying”... Ouch A quick glance over the MySQL page and it obvious that they are doing all they can to encourage commercial licenses. I must have misread that the first time. Anyway, that’s not the point I was trying to make. The fact remains that I can license my code under the GPL and then turn around and license the same code again under another license for cash, i.e. you can make money licensing open source code.
I was trying to reply to the following statements. >>>>"Stallman’s encouragement to replace proprietary software with free >>>>alternatives would complicate matters for makers of open source >>>>software, as it would remove one of the few areas from which open source >>>>software generates revenue: licensing the code to makers of proprietary >>>>software." >>This statement has several problems with it, most obviously the paradox >>at the end about generating revenue by licensing open source code. What? >>Huh? It's Open Source, you can ask someone to pay you for it, but if >>it's open source they don't have to. I doubt I'd make much money if I >>tried to license Linux to IBM. SCOh wait, I guess some people do that, >>but it isn't a revenue stream for open source developers. dave -----Original Message----- From: Michael L Torrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:15 PM To: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: RE: [uug] ZDNet response to RMS On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 14:54, District Webmaster wrote: > Quoting DTucker: > > "Also, much GPLed software is not free for commercial use. If you use > MySQL > in you business, you have to pay for it." > > Is this really the case? I was under the impression that you only had to > pay for it when you used it as a part of commercial software offereings > or service -- but that you could use it as a standalone product in your > business under the GPL. I was also under the impression that the > for-a-fee version of MySQL was sold under a different license (and, > therefore, not GPLed software in that case). You're right. He's either knowingly lying to us about this, or he's just misled. Either way we can see that a large amount of education needs to done yet. Michael > > Can anyone clarify for me? > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
