FC4 or FC5

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jun 14 22:56:38 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 17:15 -0400, Sean wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:03:36 -0500
> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > No one is questioning its availability.  Why don't you
> > address the point that it restricts others ability
> > to share their work?
> 
> Huh?  You can share _your_ work all you want.  You can't share
> _other people's_ work unless you abide by _their_ license.  See?
> 
> If you create something from scratch, do as you wish.  If your
> work only exists because it can leverage the work of other GPL
> authors, then how dare you demand the right to do whatever you want
> without respecting the wishes of the original authors.
>  
Because if you get software under a GPL license from someone you both
have the same rights relative to the software. Therefore you do not have
to respect the wishes of the original author.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>




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