Free?

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Tue Oct 25 21:38:19 PDT 2011


"Kagamin" <spam at here.lot> wrote in message 
news:j8819j$667$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
>
>> "Kagamin" <spam at here.lot> wrote in message
>> news:j83tie$abu$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> >> You're afraid of others, but GPL can also protect *your* code.
>> >
>> > Most notably GPL protects the rights of your users. Are you thinking 
>> > about
>> > your users?
>>
>> That's just backwards, GPL *limits* user rights. For instance, the right 
>> to
>> license my software however I damn well choose.
>
> Licenses like boost exist to allow corporations to make money on free code 
> while restricting users. Of course GPL prohibits this.

It's free code. The whole point is to let people go ahead and use it.




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