Re: GNU License and Computer Break Ins
At the risk of seeming to pick nits, this is not actually the effect of
the GPL. The author of a GPL work can license it to different parties on
different terms; only authors of derivative works are so encumbered. The
author of a GPL work could even sell it, or add conditions of sale, such
as allowing people to purchase technical support only if they also
purchased the program. The author of a GPL could even make two completely
different versions such as a free version and a pay version; nothing in
the GPL prohibits crippleware by an original author.
-- Mike
On 2000-05-19 at 22:27 -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> However, the GPL tries to make sure that -- once copies of GPLed software
> are distributed -- the recipients of the software have as many rights as
> any other recipients of any other versions of that software. [That means
> no peculiar rules about how recipient c has to follow special procedures
> when modifying the version of the software received from recipient f,
> for instance.]
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