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From: michael@stb.uucp (Michael Gersten)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: What does free mean.
Message-ID: <1990Mar20.012933.12640@stb.uucp>
Date: 20 Mar 90 01:29:33 GMT
References: <1151@mtxinu.UUCP> <1990Mar14.234322.16167@NCoast.ORG> <6110@becker.UUCP>
Reply-To: michael@stb.uucp (Michael Gersten)
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In article <6110@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
:There is nothing which prevents you from selling software which
:contains FSF-licenced code.
:
:What you are prohibited from doing is to conceal the source
:code from the customer.
:
:Now this certainly has some economic implications, but they are for
:the most part not the same problems as the ones you fear mistakenly.

What is does imply is that I cannot sell a given program twice. Therefore,
there is no reason to write re-usable software for sale. Each program,
in order to be sellable, must be different from the previous, and it is
my individual changes each time that I am selling.

	^^ THAT ^^ is that I don't like.

I have no objection to requiring the source code to be made availible;
however, I want to own the copyright on the source, and not let the
person I sell to own that copy (and in turn give it away or sell it to another
person, etc).

Unless I've mis-understood the copyleft, this is not possible; the source
comes under the copyleft, and its distribution cannot be prevented.

		Michael

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		Michael
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