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Originally Posted by calvin-c
The authors generally want enough control to prevent somebody taking it & selling it as their own.)
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The most common licence, the GPL actually allows just that - as long as the derived work is also incensed under the GPL. I guess it is often overlooked that the GPL is a very commercial licence.
I for once have two programs for mobile phones which I
sell under the GPL and which contain GPL software from other authors.
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Originally Posted by Logseman
But I mean the whole fuzz about people saying that copyright is necessary.
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Sure it is. Copyright protects my work from being turned into closed source.
Martin