Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

[JEDIDIAH]

On 2009-04-06, Rjack <user@example.net> wrote:
> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>> On 2009-04-06, amicus_curious <ACDC@sti.net> wrote:
>>> "JEDIDIAH" <jedi@nomad.mishnet> wrote in message 
>>> news:slrngtkmgi.vvv.jedi@nomad.mishnet...
>>>
>>>>> GPL license offerers are much more akin to homeowners who are trying
>>>>> to rip off their invited guests by tempting them to accept an illegal
>>>>> contract.
>>>>   Nice self-nuke on your part there...
>>>>
>>>>   You either have a legal contract or you are tresspassing.
>>>>
>>> I don't think that you understood the analogy.  Let me put it in what might 
>>> be a more understandable form.  Say you go to Chicago for the Open Source 
>>> Expo and you and your buddies, being new to the big city, are wandering up 
>>> State Street and get enticed into a titty bar.  Then some sweet honeys cozy 
>>> up to you and ask you to buy them a drink.  "Sure!", you say, flattered by 
>>> such attention.  Then later you find that the tab for the girls' drinks are 
>>> not what you expected and are some $50 apiece.  "Pay up or we will call the 
>>> cops!" is what you are told.
>>>
>>> Now that is more akin to the way that unsophisticates are lured into using 
>>> the "free" GPL code and then are hammered for their birthright by the SFLC. 
>>> "Ignorance is no excuse!", they say, "What's yours is now ours, you have 
>>> been touched!" 
>> 
>> ...except the GPL is very plain and out in the open.
>> 
>> The intent of RMS is very clear and rather blunt.
>> 
>> The only way you can "misunderstand" anything is if it were
>> your original intent to try and "take advantage" to begin with.
>> 
>> The terms are by no stretch of the imagination hidden.
>> 
>> Neither is the intent of the proprietor.
>> 
>
> Boldness and clarity of purpose does not make that purpose legal.

...then the whole situation reverts to "straight property law".

You're attempt to have it both ways just wont fly.

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