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From: | David Irvine |
Subject: | Re: [circle] GPL Violation - no I wont |
Date: | Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:01:07 +0000 |
Hello, Faried Nawaz: > Actually, I think you can. If you own the copyrights to all the code, Well, yeah, if you own the copyrights you can do what you like, but David Irvine doesn't, and he's already received a refusal from at least one of the copyright owners - me (admittedly the bulk of my code could be removed or clean-roomed reasonably easily). IIRC, the major copyright owner is currently not on this list. I can contact him, but I doubt he'll be enthusiastic about donating his work to a random stranger. Certainly nothing I've seen so far would persuade me in his place. I'm also dubious about the competence of anyone who uses the phrase "p2p client or server"; and doing networking well requires a lot of competence. The pricing structure also seems rather naïve. > Since this person wants to develop it openly, and close its source > once it's developed, it's unlikely that he'd be able to get anyone to > pay for the closed version. Actually, he's intending to do the ghostscript thing - make it closed first, then open it later. That's a reasonable plan, if you have a good enough idea (which he may, but he's not sharing it). However, at the pricing he's suggesting, he'll have trouble breaking even just on transaction overheads, let alone any programming work, or advertising, or anything else. Jiri
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