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Re: [OT] Free licenses, possibly viral?

At 8:29 AM -0400 8/27/03, Ruffin Bailey wrote:

I do not feel, however, that if I use your library in my app, that I should be forced to open source the whole lot of what I've been doing. Then I'm giving away time, and therefore dollars, to anyone who can request source and has the savvy to make a build. I and the companies I work for don't have that luxury, nor should you have to if you prefer to be the sole seller of novel software you created *that doesn't need servicing*.

In other words, you are not willing to agree to the license terms under which they have published their library. They've offered to share their code with you and all they ask in return is the same courtesy. You aren't willing to do that. You want to share their code but horde your own. Fine, you're free to negotiate a different license with the copyright holder for a suitable sum of money that grants you different rights.

But I get really peeved when people tell me that they think *my* code should be free, but *their* code shouldn't be. The GPL is scrupulously fair and equal. if you don't want to play by the GPL rules, don't use GPL software.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
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