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Re: Help to pick a license for my free source code project


From: rjack
Subject: Re: Help to pick a license for my free source code project
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:20:20 -0400
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John Hasler wrote:
KomsBomb writes:
2, The source code can't be used in commercial program.  That's to say,
the source code can't be used to make any profit in both source code or
binary form.

Then it isn't Free Software and so you are off-topic here.

Since the GPL is unenforceable under US law, GPL'd code isn't "Free Software" either. See:

'Professor Robert P. Merges of the Berkeley Law School noted some of the problems in his "The End of Friction? Property Rights and Contract in the 'Newtonian' World of On-Line Commerce" (12 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 115), in which he describes the GPL as "informal (i.e., not legally enforceable) restrictions on digital content."'
http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/2000/1/



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