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Re: making a non-GPLed module



"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> writes:

> Free software is about slightly more than having source: it's also
> about being able to use the source for whatever you want (not just
> for your personal pleasure) without needed to have a battery of
> lawyers explain to you what you can, and what you can't do (because
> in that case, you usually don't take risks and assume that you can't
> do anything).

Funny how a serious and realistic question about GPL (and I do believe
mine was) results in a single sound piece of advice: consult your
lawyers...

> way) and "fier"-ness (if you release something under GPL you can't
> find oneday somebody else becoming a millinaire from the fruits your
> work).

M-x toggle-tongue-in-cheek-mode RET

ESR?  He did contribute a lot, but the valuation of LNUX was not
based on fetchmail or "Cathedral"... Or was it?

M-x toggle-tongue-in-cheek-mode RET

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org 
"If it ain't broken, it has not got enough features yet."

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