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On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 03:37 PM, Wayne wrote:
What GPL means, if GPLed code was not GPLed anymore?
Please do not try to modify what GPL means. Please read the
preamble http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html which stated
very clearly that GPL is "to make sure the software is free for
all its users". It did not say only to paid users. It is a simple
fact that you got it for free at the first place, you will have
to maintain it free to ALL others. Not because you modified
it then it will be only free to few paid ones. If GPLed code
becomes only free to few paid ones, then who is going to
pay the original authors? That is a violation to GPL.
Except that the definition of FREE in the GPL has nothing to do with
price. RMS has stated this over and over and over and over and over and
over and over and over and over again and again and again that GPL does
not mean free as in price. It means free as in LIBERTY to do whatever
the hell you want with it once you have it. Or as some people say...
free as in beer.
--Paul Baker
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