[Discuss] Profiting from GPL software

[rlk at alum.mit.edu (Robert Krawitz)]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:53:46 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 11/11/2015 9:12 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> At the expense of your freedom to deny others the same rights you
>> have, to be exact.
>
> Others have no rights to my works other than those that I explicitly
> assign and those that are provided under fair use. These are spelled
> out in the Constitution of the United States and the Copyright Act
> of 1976.

Uh huh.  So that means that *you* have no rights to GPL'ed works
except for those that the authors assign under the GPL.  What's sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gander.  The goal of the GPL is
precisely to ensure the same rights to everyone.
-- 
Robert Krawitz                                     <rlk at alum.mit.edu>

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