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Re: Are Microsoft’s patent lawyers really this dumb?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Are Microsoft’s patent lawyers really this dumb?
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:43:05 +0200
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"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

>    Not really.  You can use it to license commercial software, but
>    since the demand is that it is "to be licensed as a whole at no
>    charge", while you can charge for a copy of the _software_, the
>    license itself is not a commercial item.
>
> Sure it is, you can charge several millions for a copy of the license.
> All that is required is that you do not modify it.

You can't charge anything for the license accompanying sublicensed
GPLed software, obviously.  That's what the "no charge" is about.
Please read again.

>    Anyway, in contrast to most available licenses, the GPL has a
>    section explaining how to apply it to software of your own.  That
>    makes it considerably _easier_ to license stuff under the GPL than
>    under most other licenses.  You just need to read the respective
>    section.
>
> Well, to license anything you need to read the license, if you
> don't, then you are quite stupid, kinda like giving out signed
> checks without a sum or something...

You got side-tracked again.  The topic was that the GPL contains a
passage explaining how to apply it to software of your own, in
contrast to many other licenses.  You can read those other licenses as
often as you want and they won't tell you how to apply them to works
of your own.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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