On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:24:50AM +0000, John Tapsell wrote:
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Hi Rui,
Btw, What country are you from? Some friends saw your name and sparked up a long debate about it... :)
:) The same that I'm from... Do a little Internet work and you'll get there.
Skeaping about the University, in my country we don't sign any document about granting ownership, but I've asked a professor about this and he could only say that as I have the right to do with the software as I like, so does the University. Anyway, my rights were not removed.
I haven't really said what market I was going for - I'm not aiming at selling this for $50, or even $500, but way more - which kinda makes have your points not really applicable in such contexts.
You may still sell by 50000 £ if you like, and still have the software GPL'ed. After all, you're not obligated to distribute your software to everybody and make it available in a home page for everybody to download for free.
If you make your software GPL but available only to paying customers, then depending of those customers your software will probably not end up being available for everyone but will still be free (as in speech).
Of course, those customers will be allowed to distribute it for free or for a fee, but depending on the market of your application they could have no reason to do so.
Regards, Luciano Rocha
Good luck with your free software application!
uh thanks I think :P
(Now, this was funny!)