Author: Gabor Szots
Date: 00:08:57 06/21/05
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On June 21, 2005 at 02:43:01, Madhavan wrote: >On June 21, 2005 at 02:19:08, Gabor Szots wrote: > >>On June 20, 2005 at 11:16:49, Madhavan wrote: >> >>>On June 20, 2005 at 11:12:31, Gabor Szots wrote: >>> >>>>On June 20, 2005 at 10:32:33, Cesar Contreras wrote: >>>> >>>>>I'm not sure, in my understanding every derivated work from Fruit must be GPL. >>>>> >>>>>can it go commercial? >>>>> >>>>>if so can anybody make it commercial or just fabien? >>>>> >>>>>in my undersanding (point me wrong), fruit not longer belongs to fabien because >>>>>it's GPL. >>>> >>>>In my opinion it would be ridiculous if law did not allow Fabien to make his own >>>>program commercial. >>> >>>Why not? >>>you dont want top freebie to get first ranking? >>> >>>Fabien is a very kind and polite man,he wanted to distribute his code to >>>everyone.why is it so ridiculous?its his own work,he can do anything with it. >> >>I have read your answer about 10 times now and I still don't understand what it >>has to do with my post. >>Still, I apologize for the perhaps too harsh reaction in my other reply. > >"In my opinion it would be ridiculous if law did not allow Fabien to make his >own program commercial." > >Why is so hard to understand?It has nothing to do with law because Fabien wants >to release his program freely > >its not ridiculous,you mean that you wanted law to disallow fabien to release >his new version because there were other programmers who will lose their job >because customers will be convinced that fruit is already better than any >commercial and its a freebie,right? No, I meant law should not forbid. How can you interpret it otherwise is a mystery for me. > > >I mean its not upto law to decide anything if a programmer who believes his >program doesnt attain commercial level,Fabien believes fruit still needs more >update. > >Law shouldnt forbid. That is exactly (not exectly :-)) what I said. >>Best wishes, >>Gábor
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