[PLUG] Proprietary Software & the GPL

[Richard Langis]

The problem is that he's PORTING a legacy DOS/Win library to linux with 
the original author's permission.

That author may not WANT his code to be GPL'ed.  The fact that Rich is 
wanting to do this for him is enough - if, later on, the ORIGINAL author 
decides to release his code (and Rich's ported source) to the GPL, then 
so be it.

But it is definitely NOT up to Rich as to wether the ported code gets 
released into the GPL.  All he wanted to know is if it would be okay to 
use GPL apps/libraries/code to create the frontend to his ported app.

-R

Doug Davis wrote:
> 
> My point was that Rich's primary employment (as he has said many times)
> is environmental consulting, not professional programming. He relies on
> free software to run his business as well as free support from this
> list. I don't think all software should be free, but when you are
> adamantly against software that isn't open source for your personal use,
> but then don't give the community the same consideration that you used
> to your advantage, I just don't think it is right. I am pretty sure that
> Rich can legally do what he is planning to do, but I don't think he is
> returning the spirit of the gift. No one is denying that he needs to
> eat, but it seems wrong to take out more than you give if you can afford
> to do otherwise.
> 
> 

-- 
s u n  m i c r o s y s t e m s

   ~ Richard Langis Jr. ~
   richard.langis at sun.com


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