[Discuss] Profiting from GPL software

[Rich Pieri]

On 11/11/2015 10:02 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
> 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.

Correct. I have no rights to your works except those which you
explicitly grant to me and those provided by fair use. It's your work.
You own it. You get to decide how it is distributed and how it is used.

> The goal of the GPL is precisely to ensure the same rights to everyone.

The goal of copyleft, and the GPL in particular, is to eliminate
individual ownership of software. Couching this in terms of rights and
freedoms, ethics and morals is just a way of making it sound like it
isn't socialism.

-- 
Rich P.