On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 00:13, Xavi Drudis Ferran wrote:
El Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:22:06PM +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra deia:
Boss: Does GPL really allow someone to use commercially the output of a program?
I don't understand. Most licenses allow the output of a program to be used commercially. I wonder whether you can forbid it. Even Microsoft allows Word documents to be printed and sent to customers or providers...
I told him that, but in his reasoning, you had paid for Word...
One thing is having doubts about whether they can get enough money to keep going, but doubts about whether it is fair to use a GPL program?
His doubpts are if it is fair to have so much work, and then some smart ass company makes a lot of money and not pay the developer for anything... that's where he considers it unfair -- I couldn't demove him from that point of view :(
Cheers...