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At 04:03 PM 4/16/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 03:37 PM, Wayne wrote:
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>>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.
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>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
Free as in beer is good! As long as no age 21 limit on this one :-)
Anyone can access to it, that is the LIBERTY GPL gave to all of
us to any GPLed code and any modified version of it.
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