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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.
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Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote:
:  But the 
: FSF is determined not that you don't give away their work, but that you 
: must give away *your*own* work, and that is somehow or other laudable? 

You must give away your "own" work if and only if
a/ you distribute your "own" work
b/ your "own" work incorporates GPLed software.
I have put quotation marks around "own", because the GPL does _not_
force you to do anything with your own work, if it is your own work.

: That isn't "predatory"?

How could it? Free Software can only consist of parts that have
been deliberately licensed to the General Public.
If you can't make money from that, then they are not predators.
That would seem a strage logic to me.

If someone (A) deliberately offeres me (B) a chewing gum, and I take it,
then I am not a predator, am I?
If this person A says, "I'll give this to you (B) if you promise to give
your chewing gums away for free", then am I (B) a predator?
Is A a predator?
Do I have to take it?

Georg