Re: [smartquant] Re: GPL license violation? [GNU Scientific Library]

[José Miguel Buenaposada <jmbuena at dia dot fi dot upm dot es>]

I think you have to see it in other way ...

GSLsoftware it´s community software (in the same way Windows
2000 it´s MS software) so the GPL protecs the community software
in the same way the MS licenses protect the MS software.

The only thing community ask you is that if you want to make profit
with the community software you have to contribute your additions
to the community (in the same way MS ask you for money or
royalties). Why are you going to accept the MS conditions and not
the community ones? If you don´t want to make GPL your software
then you can not use community software, that´s all.

Regards.
José Miguel.

Edwin Robert Tisdale wrote:

> Brian Gough wrote:
>
> > Edwin Robert Tisdale writes:
> >
> > > Anton may distribute his software without the GSL
> > > so that customers would be obliged to obtain the GSL
> > > (or another library using the same API) separately
> > > and link them together themselves.
> >
> > I don't think any lawyer
> > is going to recommend that as a business model..
>
> Lawyers don't recommend any business model.
> They advise their clients on the law.
>
> > Attempting to circumvent a license is illegal too.
>
> I think that you are reading too much into the GPL.
>
> Anton Fokin doesn't need to comply with the GPL
> if he doesn't distribute the GSL with his program.
> His customers can obtain the GSL from another source
> and link it into his code themselves as long as
> they don't distribute the GSL with Anton's program.
> There is nothing in the GPL or copyright law
> that would prevent them from doing so.
> It was never the intent of the GPL
> to prevent them from doing so.
> Your lawyers would advise you that
> you would be foolish to sue anybody that did so.
> Threatening to do so will not win any friends for the GSL.
>
> I have advised and still advise people to avoid the GSL.
> Using the GSL under the GPL simply invites
> the copyright holder, the author or any of their customers
> to sue them even if they comply with the terms of the GPL.
>
> Please, Brian, if you want people to use the GSL,
> try to be a little more helpful and a little less confrontational.

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