Python is better than free (was Re: GNU wars again)

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

"Oleg Broytmann" <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote in message
news:mailman.1002052744.9929.python-list at python.org...
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:58:52AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> > Trying to make me into a cheap-skate and a thief doesn't endear me too
much
> > to you Oleg.
>
>    But of course!
>
> > The issue is not whether I use people's work without paying them - if
they
> > didn't want me to, they would CHARGE for it.
>
>    This is exactly how the GPL works - it charges for my code. You can pay
> me money, or you can pay me by opening your code.

Is it really? Or is this the case when you use two different licenses,
one GPL and one commercial? In that case, this has nothing to do with
the GPL itself. If someone GPLs the code without having a separate
commercial license (which is the case with lots of free/opensource/whatever
projects) then all commercial developers can do is shy away from the
software. Right? (They could, of course, ask for another license, but,
again, that has nothing to do with the GPL.)

> Oleg.

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