Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

And that has absolutely nothing to do with my point. Releasing it under 
the GPL makes it "legal" and the original artists may have absolutely no 
grounds to cry about it and so on. I *never* said that they did. What I 
*did* say was that what you get via the GPL and then use in a for-profit 
venture represents a contribution to the venture that is not 
compensated. This is a simple statement of fact that ought to be 
intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer. I pick up the work 
of another - something that has value - and use it to make money. That 
is an uncompensated contribution to a business.

People are absolutely free to go do charity work for corporations if 
they like. I won't stop them. If they want to come over to my house and 
mow my lawn next weekend, they can do that to. Personally, I'd rather 
give my charity time to more deserving recipients and give my software 
development time to those who will offer me compensation. But that's 
just me. :-)

Thanks for the vote of confidence on my musical tastes. ;-)

MDC


Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> 
> 
> Did the bands your talking about release their music under the GPL?
> Said, it's free to use and distribute? I don't think so.
> BTW, it seems you have a good taste in music. ;)
> 
> 
>>I'm providing the *exact* same "service" that RedHat
>>does and I owe nothing to the original artists?
> 
> 
> Exactly that *would* be the case.
> 
> BTW, <URL:http://sensoryresearch.com/~starkeff/beatallica.html>:
> 
> |One more thing.. we now have a copyright notice on the webpage (at the
> |very end). This does not mean that you can't download the songs for
> |free. Download all you want! Burn CD-R's for your friends! Just don't
> |sell them, OK?
> 
> So these people didn't release their music under the GPL, but it's
> still free.
> 
> 
> Vinzent.


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