Dario Lopez-KĀsten wrote:
and then, when you want to distribute your modifications, you find yourself in a bad position, because it will mean that you would have to give everybody else the same rights that allowed you to distribute a modification of someone elses work, in the first place?
What if I can't distribute the modifications or a web site built using GPL'ed components because I also use a commercial library in it? To quote Dave Winer: "[The GPL is] designed to create a wall between commercial development and free development. The world is not that simple. There are plenty of commercial developers who participate in open source. Python belongs in commercial products. How does that hurt Python?" I _do_ want to give something back to the community, but I do not want to be forced to give away for free every piece of code I wrote because some silly person thinks it's okay to earn money with everything else but it's morally wrong to earn money with software development. Cheers, Nils -- nika@acm.org nika@kassube.de (preferred) 4kassube@informatik.uni-hamburg.de