From: Eric Schwartz Date: 2003-07-10T09:37:36+09:00 Subject: Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. Paul Prescod writes: > The discussion was about the use of GPLed components. My point was that > if you use those components you can no longer license it under any terms > you care to and that in turn means that it is not really practical to > "sell" it in the sense of selling the bits. Once you allow > redistribution, someone else can redistribute your code at a price much > lower than your own. And my point is that they must do so under the terms of the GPL. You have to offer your code under the GPL as well-- which seem fair to me, since you're piggybacking on the work of others who've released their code publicly. But if you want to use non-GPL components, perhaps as an option, then you can *also* license your code under any onerous, nasty, proprietary license you choose. If a customer wants to use code that forces them to release their code as GPL, they can buy from anyone (or just download), but if they don't, they have to come to you. Many media projects do this successfully-- I think Ogg Vorbis is dual-licensable. -=Eric -- Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare. -- Blair Houghton.