Re: [xmlvm-users] GPL and iPhone AppStore

[George S. <ge...@sn...>]

Thanks for the comments.

 

Re:

 

It is my understanding that the GPL is about the Personal freedom to see
what the developer is doing on YOUR machine and the ability to change that.

 

The GPL is about contributing code back to the OpenSource, if you make use
of GPL code yourself. It's nothing about looking at other people's machines
:)

 

Having read a fair amount of the history re Richard Stallman, it is my
understanding that it all originated with a closed-source print driver that
he needed to tweak.  It was not about contributing back (though that is
simply the civilized thing to do), but being able to control you own
destiny.  Part of that control was to limit exploitation of developers and
the work they author without any contribution back to the community.  And
yes, simple use is not exploitation.

 

Anyways, my $0.02, George

 

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From: sa...@gm... [mailto:sa...@gm...] On Behalf Of Sascha
Haeberling
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:35 AM
To: ge...@sn...
Cc: xml...@li...
Subject: Re: [xmlvm-users] GPL and iPhone AppStore

 

I didn't see a question in you e-mail, but I try to comment on what you say:

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:49 PM, George Smith <ge...@sn...> wrote:


We (I and my two partners) are new to xmlvm and have not YET submitted any
patches, but intend to.

It is my understanding that the GPL is about the Personal freedom to see
what the developer is doing on YOUR machine and the ability to change that.

 

The GPL is about contributing code back to the OpenSource, if you make use
of GPL code yourself. It's nothing about looking at other people's machines
:)

 


No place, to my knowledge, does the GPL say that the developer must help (or
even facilitate) others redistributing the application.

 

No, GPL doesn't say that.

 


Currently, all the apps we plan on creating are going to be free, and
therefore we have no concern of an unscrupulous development org under
cutting us by simply taking the code we will publish and redistributing the
app at a lower price.

 

If you plan to OpenSource the apps you are generating using XMLVM, that
don't worry about anything, you can just do so. :)

 

// Sascha

 


George



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