Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:53:10 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419134744.0461c430@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010419185843.N88142@lpt.ens.fr> References: <200104191653.JAA03074@usr08.primenet.com> <20010419065023.A5664-100000@blues.jpj.net> <200104191653.JAA03074@usr08.primenet.com>
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t 10:58 AM 4/19/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >> That's really the point: under the GPL, there's no way to amortize >> R&D costs on brilliant additions resulting in derivative works. > >Even if you were right: so? With closed-source, there's no way to >*make* derivative works. But the software is also not out there for anyone to use for free, destroying your markets and reducing the market value of its functionality to zero. > And with a BSD-style license, the original >author doesn't benefit if you make your brilliant addition, The original author doesn't benefit under the GPL, either. While in both cases the market value of his code (and its functionality) is reduced to zero, under the GPL his code will continue to compete unfairly with his future efforts and he cannot use future contributions in his own commercial softwere. >Besides, you *can* dual-license, if you can get the agreement of all >the copyright owners. Dual licensing is a sham and a trap. Other authors will contribute back under the GPL but are generally unwilling to allow the original author to use their work in something that's licensed any other way -- because THEY can't! The original author is, as is commonly said, screwed. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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