[Discuss] Profiting from GPL software

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

In other words, you saw GPL'ed software and initially thought to yourself,
"Hey! Free stuff! I can take what these gullible fools are giving away for
free, make a few tweaks, and profit from the result without going to all
the trouble of reinventing all the wheels that they give away for free!"

Then, on closer examination, you found that the GPL was cleverly designed
to prevent people like you from taking unfair advantage of their work like
that, and now you're carrying around a chip on your shoulder full of sour
grapes.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 11/11/2015 10:59 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:
>
>> So you object to contributing to software when you have to agree to the
>> pre-existing license of said software?
>>
>
> Yes. Contributing to GPL projects is not contributing to the common good.
> It's only contributing to GPL projects. The common good includes *BSD which
> cannot use code licensed under the GPL.
>
> Contributor is not the same as Distributor
>>
>
> A contributor distributes his changes to others even if the others are
> themselves distributors.
>
> GPLv3 was created in order to combat Digital Restrictions.  Again,
>> contributors to GPL'd software do so to retain, and protect their liberty,
>> not to lock it down and restrict it technically.
>>
>
> At the expense of my freedom to protect my rights.
>
> AFAIK, private 'sharing' (non-disclosure) is not distribution, but we were
>> discussing the role of contributors rather than distributors.
>> Non-disclosure wouldn't even BE contributing.
>>
>
> See previous about contributor == distributor.
>
> This is a liberating and freedom defending aspect of the GPL.  It makes
>> software about solutions rather than lawyers.  It makes contributions into
>> gifts rather than sneaky backdoor extortion schemes.
>>
>
> It's denying me some of my legal rights to my patents (if I had any).
>
> You asked what is onerous and burdensome about the GPL. Theses are some
> examples. Perhaps you don't find them onerous and burdensome. I do.
>
>
> I've met Richard Stallman on many occasions and have yet to be stabbed,
>> even in Cambridge, MA where many of these alleged cronies must lie in wait
>> to stab contributors.  I felt perfectly safe every occasion.
>>
>
> Someone fails to understand the concept of metaphor.
>
>
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> Rich P.
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