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Re: Is it OK to use my rewritten GNU program commercially?
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John Hasler |
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Re: Is it OK to use my rewritten GNU program commercially? |
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Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:57:08 -0500 |
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sourceview writes:
> if you are the copyright holder, and you released your own work to the
> GPL (a bad move in my perspective) you can certainly take your rewritten
> code and market it as a commercial product
No need to rewrite. He can distribute the exact same code he released
under the GPL under any terms he sees fit.
> Go ahead and register a copyright with the US Government...
No need to register until you are ready to sue.
> ...so that when thieves start stealing you blind, you can sue them for
> $50,000 per individual theft.
Copyright infringement is not theft, and the rules for statutory damages
are a bit more complex than that.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA