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On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 00:55, Trent Shipley wrote:
> I don't think this is entirely fair to the GPL and FSF people.  The GPL i=
s=20
> willing to treat a corporation as an artifical person, and therefore a=20
> "user".  In effect the GPL doesn't license software to humans who use=20
> software, but to software using firms.  Employees use the software in the=
ir=20
> role as employees not as individuals (that is, one person firms).

I think the FSF does what the law allows them.  They are pretty bound to
dealing with legal entities as the law sees them.  In the case of a
corporation the agreement is between the corporation and the copyright
holder not the employee and the copyright holder.  This is not the FSF's
fault.

> If you create a software license so restrictive that a good ol' fashioned=
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> greedy capitalist can't figure out how to do any development work and mak=
e a=20
> buck ... that could be a problem too.

Since software is slowly becoming a commodity I don't think it is the
issue it was 5 years ago.  Only the largest shrink wrap vendors are
relying on software licensing as a primary revenue stream much anymore.

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Derek Neighbors
GNU Enterprise
http://www.gnuenterprise.org
derek@gnue.org

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