[BadVista Advocate] "Free" software

[Jacob Maynard]

I didn't misunderstand free. I'm not sure you understood what I said. GPL
allows you to sell your software, but you would still have to release the
source code for it. And you could redistribute it, if the original
copyright owner got the price he was asking for. That's fair. I wouldn't
have a problem paying, but I want the rights. I also want the
person/people who originally made it to be able to make a living off of
it. Did this clear it up?

Jacob

> Jacob Maynard wrote:
>  > With the free-software title, the developers of games would be required
> to
>> release the source code for their games with the purchase of the game.
>> Not
>> okay it for free distribution after that.
>>
>> See, each person would have to buy a copy of this piece of software. If
>> another company stole the code for the game, (and what are they going to
>> steal? An "if then" statement? Tutorials for this are on the internet.
>> Direct3D code? Also on the internet and even available from the giant
>> themselves. OpenGL? Stress the word "OPEN." tutorials are all over the
>> internet. It just matters how hard a person wants to work at
>> programming.)
>> they would be liable and would be infringing the
>> copyright/copyleft/license agreement. They could be sued. Anyone
>> releasing
>> the code for no-cost would also be infringing the license agreement.
>> Therefore, programmers can still feed their kids.
>
> You seem to have misunderstood what we mean by free (as in freedom)
> software here. Out of the four
> essential freedoms, freedom 2 is the freedom to redistribute copies, and
> freedom 3 is the freedom to
> distribute modified versions. Just because the source code for the games
> you're talking about would
> be released, they wouldn't be free software, because they wouldn't respect
> those two freedoms for
> the users.
>
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