Comments on: The GNU people have gone off their collective rocker http://www.ypass.net/blog/2009/04/the-gnu-people-have-gone-off-their-collective-rocker/ Solaris, PHP, and Random Things Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:24:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Yeshua Watson http://www.ypass.net/blog/2009/04/the-gnu-people-have-gone-off-their-collective-rocker/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Yeshua Watson Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:08:52 +0000 http://www.ypass.net/blog/?p=109#comment-15 I don't agree with Alex M. assessment entirely as in this case I don't think you would have been violating the GPL--assuming you were using the software for internal purposes. The GPL prevents commercial endeavors from including Open Source software bundled with (or part of) proprietary software. If you were just planning on using the software for commercial usage and not resale, then I think you would have been fine. I don’t agree with Alex M. assessment entirely as in this case I don’t think you would have been violating the GPL–assuming you were using the software for internal purposes. The GPL prevents commercial endeavors from including Open Source software bundled with (or part of) proprietary software. If you were just planning on using the software for commercial usage and not resale, then I think you would have been fine.

]]> By: Alex M. http://www.ypass.net/blog/2009/04/the-gnu-people-have-gone-off-their-collective-rocker/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Alex M. Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:42:59 +0000 http://www.ypass.net/blog/?p=109#comment-9 What entitles commercial software vendors to make money from other people's work? If you want to use software for free then you should make your software free too. If you want to make money from MagpieRSS, then you should contact them, commercially license them, and give them a fair cut for their efforts. What entitles commercial software vendors to make money from other people’s work? If you want to use software for free then you should make your software free too. If you want to make money from MagpieRSS, then you should contact them, commercially license them, and give them a fair cut for their efforts.

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