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> edguer@charlie.CES.CWRU.Edu (Aydin Edguer) writes:
> > In article <1991Jul2.183339.3838@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld@stowe.cs.was
> > >                         [...] Note I said source code - not stuff from
> > > the libraries, but perhaps something like taking gcc's parser, ripping
> > > it out and using it for something else. If I charge time+materials to
> > > a client for this, am I ripping of the original author of the parser,
> > > or simply making good use of their work ? 
> > 
> > You may also be making good use of their work.  But unless you give back
> > something to the author, you are ripping the author off by charging someone
> > else for the authors labor without reimbursing the author.
> 
> But the author does not want reimbursment.  If he did, he would not have
> released his software under the GPL.

The reimbursment the authour wants is not cash, but shared and improved
software.