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Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean
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JEDIDIAH |
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Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean |
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Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:38:24 -0500 |
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On 2009-04-06, Rjack <user@example.net> wrote:
> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>> On 2009-04-06, amicus_curious <ACDC@sti.net> wrote:
>>> "JEDIDIAH" <jedi@nomad.mishnet> wrote in message
>>> news:slrngtkmgi.vvv.jedi@nomad.mishnet...
>>>
>>>>> GPL license offerers are much more akin to homeowners who are trying
>>>>> to rip off their invited guests by tempting them to accept an illegal
>>>>> contract.
>>>> Nice self-nuke on your part there...
>>>>
>>>> You either have a legal contract or you are tresspassing.
>>>>
>>> I don't think that you understood the analogy. Let me put it in what might
>>> be a more understandable form. Say you go to Chicago for the Open Source
>>> Expo and you and your buddies, being new to the big city, are wandering up
>>> State Street and get enticed into a titty bar. Then some sweet honeys cozy
>>> up to you and ask you to buy them a drink. "Sure!", you say, flattered by
>>> such attention. Then later you find that the tab for the girls' drinks are
>>> not what you expected and are some $50 apiece. "Pay up or we will call the
>>> cops!" is what you are told.
>>>
>>> Now that is more akin to the way that unsophisticates are lured into using
>>> the "free" GPL code and then are hammered for their birthright by the SFLC.
>>> "Ignorance is no excuse!", they say, "What's yours is now ours, you have
>>> been touched!"
>>
>> ...except the GPL is very plain and out in the open.
>>
>> The intent of RMS is very clear and rather blunt.
>>
>> The only way you can "misunderstand" anything is if it were
>> your original intent to try and "take advantage" to begin with.
>>
>> The terms are by no stretch of the imagination hidden.
>>
>> Neither is the intent of the proprietor.
>>
>
> Boldness and clarity of purpose does not make that purpose legal.
...then the whole situation reverts to "straight property law".
You're attempt to have it both ways just wont fly.
--
Microsoft: Because the world doesn't have enough peasants. |||
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- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, (continued)
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, JEDIDIAH, 2009/04/06
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, Rjack, 2009/04/06
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, JEDIDIAH, 2009/04/06
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, amicus_curious, 2009/04/06
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, Rjack, 2009/04/06
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, amicus_curious, 2009/04/06
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, JEDIDIAH, 2009/04/06
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, Rjack, 2009/04/06
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean,
JEDIDIAH <=
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, Rahul Dhesi, 2009/04/06
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, Rjack, 2009/04/06
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, amicus_curious, 2009/04/06
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, chrisv, 2009/04/07
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, dr_nikolaus_klepp, 2009/04/07
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, amicus_curious, 2009/04/07
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, dr_nikolaus_klepp, 2009/04/08
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, Rjack, 2009/04/06
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, JEDIDIAH, 2009/04/06
- Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean, Rjack, 2009/04/06