[wp-hackers] Plugin Licensing

[Mike Little]

On 13 March 2011 09:35, Andy Charrington-Wilden
<andycharrington at gmail.com>wrote:

> Why not have both?
>
> What is it that's so disagreeable?
>
>
The GPL is all about giving rights to the USERS of your software, it is not
about protecting rights of the developer (that's what copyright is for).
You give them a number of freedoms, not restrictions, the only restrictions
they have are that they cannot take away from others  those
freedoms that they themselves were afforded, .
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

And despite what some people say, the GNU GPL *is* the embodiment of a
philosophy.

None of this restricts you from making money from the software or
it's derivatives. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html


If you don't want to work within this philosophy, you should look to a
software project that allows you to place restrictions on users of your
software.


Mike
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