Path: utzoo!censor!isgtec!robert
From: robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert A. Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: What does "free" mean, eh? (Re: Scareware)
Message-ID: <315@isgtec.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 90 22:35:39 GMT
References: <306@isgtec.UUCP> <7401@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert Osborne)
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga, Ontario
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In article lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>In article <306@isgtec.UUCP> robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert Osborne) writes:
>: Donateware is "here it is, it is mine, use it and if you like it and
>: you are a nice guy, send me a donation, please"
>
>Please send me $100,000 if you like Perl and if you are a nice guy...   :-)
I don't like Perl :-) (actually I've never used it)
>
>Two points to make here.  First, the GPL doesn't say you have to give
>your code to FSF.  It merely says it has to be distributed under the
>terms of the same license.  You can retain ownership of your code.
If the source will be distributed to all who ask for it, I don't
think you've "retained ownership",  except in the "I'm proud
to say this is mine" way.

>But for a package like Perl, which is self-contained and doesn't trigger
>the so-called "virus", the GPL is close to what I want.
Hmmh, I never thought of this situation.  PD, useble for commecial
development, but protected from commercial software takeover.  I may
have to change some of my ideas about the GPL.

Rob.
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Robert A. Osborne   {...uunet!mnetor,...utzoo}!lsuc!isgtec!robert