Re: meaning of Php.XPath license?

[Peter R. <php...@pe...>]

my understanding is the same as yours, Francis, but I would add a 
couple of comments:

On Friday 28 Jun 2002 03:40, Francis Fillion wrote:
> By loking at the gnu.org site 

i.e. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy. This whole site provides a good 
summary of all the legal issues, reasonably comprehensible to 
non-lawyers. license-list.html compares the various licenses.

> If it is money, well anyone can take Php.XPath and make money from
> it, it will not be the ethics way to do it, but it can be done.

There's nothing unethical in this, at least if it's intended as Free 
Software (if it's conventional copyright material, that's another 
matter). It's a common misunderstanding that Free Software means free 
as in beer, whereas it means free as in speech. The GPL was never 
intended to prevent people from making money from writing software. 
To quote the GNU site:
"Actually we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge 
as much as they wish or can."

> By the way Nigel, if you want to be sure that no one get the
> software and keep the change they made, you should relicence the
> software to somethings else.

I agree. I don't understand why phpxpath is MPL and not GPL.