"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > Ooooh, nothing of particular value... just give us all rights to your complete
> > application, including all other libraries it might be using - including the
> > right to use it to acquire other software the same way as well - that'll be
> > enough to settle the bill...
>
> You're wrong.  GPL is a copyright-based license -- it absolutely depends on
> copyright law to enforce its terms.  And you are the copyright owner to your
> software.  You may dual license as well and this was the business model of
> MySQL, at least until being acquired by Sun.

Sure, you may continue to use your own authored code...

..... so can a free software developer whose code has been assimilated by one of
those Evil Bad Greedy Companies That Want To Steal Your Code: He's still free
to use his own code any way he likes...

So again, the difference between big companies and the FSF is marginal here as I
see it, being mainly that companies typically don't *believe* to be standing on
higher moral grounds. Aside from that, a great lot of traits the FSF criticizes
about companies can be seen in the FSF just as well, if one dares to take a
closer look instead of just blindly swimming with the mass.

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