[Python-Dev] Licensing

[Nir Aides]

I take "...running off with the good stuff and selling it for profit" to
mean "creating derivative work and commercializing it as proprietary code"
which you can not do with GPL licensed code. Also, while the GPL does not
prevent selling copies for profit it does not make it very practical either.


On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Ben Finney
<ben+python at benfinney.id.au<ben%2Bpython at benfinney.id.au>
> wrote:

> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:
>
> > A secondary reasoning for some open source licenses might be to
> > prevent others from running off with the good stuff and selling it for
> > profit. The GPL is big on that […]
>
> Really, it's not. Please stop spreading this canard.
>
> The GPL explicitly and deliberately grants the freedom to sell the work
> for profit. Every copyright holder who grants license under the terms of
> the GPL is explicitly saying “you can seel this software for any price
> you like” <URL:http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html>.
>
> Whatever other complaints people may have against the GPL, it's simply
> *false* to claim what Guido did above. Please stop it.
>
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