[NCLUG] Re: Linux World domination (was "Re: NCLUG Digest...", etc.)

[Chad Perrin]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:51:20PM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
>    If you're willing to distribute source to anything you build based on
>    this software, you I don't want you to pay me anything for it.
> 
>    However, if you do not want to release source code, you need to pay me.
> 
> The GPL or FSF doesn't control the above, it's the authors who control it.
> Releasing some software under the GPL doesn't prevent an author from
> profiting from the code.  It just doesn't.
> 
> QT is the most obvious example I can think of this.  It's available GPLed,
> but also under a proprietary license.

The first example that always comes to mind for me is MySQL.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
I was essentially an anarcho-capitalist in high school, rather than
wasting the folly of my youth on something lame like revolutionary
communism.
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