Re: why the library license

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From: Industrial Poet
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1991 11:37

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drmorris@athena.mit.edu (David R. Morrison) writes:
> I wrote:
> > edguer@charlie.CES.CWRU.Edu (Aydin Edguer) writes:
> > > 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 someo
> > > 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.

But I am not earning anything the author wants by my use of his software.
Nor am I preventing him from gaining the reimbursment he desires from his
software.  So why should I reimburse him, and what should I reimburse him
with?

Does this mean that if I decide to use some GNU software, I am *obliged* to
provide the world with some 'free' software in return?

mathew

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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Industrial Poet)
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Subject: Re: why the library license
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