-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Subject: Re: PGP 2.6 is dangerous in the long term ? Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 07:42:09 -0400 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com> Ezekial Palmer says: > The GNU copyleft is supposed to disallow a lot of for-profit uses. The GNU copyleft in no way prohibits any commercial use whatsoever. Please do not spread inaccurate rumors about copyleft. That's a pretty big statement and it's at least partly wrong. Does selling something count as a commercial use? By using "for-profit" instead of "commercial", I meant you're not supposed to profit directly from the software, like by selling it. Of course it's possible to walk the line, but you have to be careful. The way that Lucid's Energize development environment relates to their version of GNU Emacs is a good example of establishing where the line is and making it clear what's being sold, "for-profit", and what's free. Zeke -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLeNeVxVg/9j67wWxAQHVRAP9E/gumxwwQ0vbCLH8O72gPpEze96/G0DM 6IA7RnwBlT8yuIXmbCi9LmWw6/rekOVo0HU+0A4JOWtJ2xASMDr+zRmwtVUKts+1 3RKUDicxt1jrTo4Mu9o4vJilaCIlgd5x4TA0skGKujXGrTl7cmRQKNfkREYprmpg Gmqzmj/7cY8= =O23T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----