Re: gEDA-user: Commercial CAD, land pattern generators report

[Armin Faltl <armin.faltl@xxxxxx>]

I don't need your sympathy while I definitely would welcome it
and see your point. I didn't sleep the (whole) last 20 years
and wrote some code that I shared - not much since I didn't have
that much time.
Some code I wrote comprises a competitive advantage as I see it
and it's partly based other code I shared and on code like
gnu libc via linking. Maybe as long as I don't sell my non-free
code but just use it in house to compute results GPL doesn't bite,
but I don't want to be restricted in that way either.

The have your cake and eat it applies to my time too:
you can't convince me to share what I have now and
force me to give away what I may need to live from tomorrow.

Peter TB Brett wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:23:10 +0200, Armin Faltl <armin.faltl@xxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > I want to contribute or give away what I want to and keep
> > my own what I want to keep and if this is not possible with a
> > GPL-license on my own library liked to my own app, I just won't use GPL!"
> >     
>
> If you want to distribute non-Free software that uses Free software
> components, I have no sympathy for you whatsoever.  You want to have your
> cake (use high-quality libraries for which you get source code and don't
> have to pay a penny to distribute as part of your software) and eat it too
> (not have to comply with the request that you make your software Free as
> well).
>
> Why are you surprised that you can't use Free software to write non-Free
> software?  The *whole point* of the GPL is to not only preserve but expand
> the Free software ecosystem.  Have you been asleep for the last 20 years?
>
> Peter
>
>
>   


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