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Message-ID: <1067956845.12554.8.camel@tantor.nuclearelephant.com>
From: jonathan at nuclearelephant.com (Jonathan A. Zdziarski)
Subject: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and
	transition planning

> The copanies aren't the thing.  The people are the thing.  This isn't
> corporate america, it is open source.

Exactly why I think the GPL needs to address issues like this.  I've no
problem with a commercial entity using my code, or even incorporating it
into their own software...but if you're going to make a profit off of
merely redistributing someone else's work, or if your product is
basically someone else's work with a little wrapper around it, the
author should benefit.  Bottom line, open source licensing is designed
to protect the author and benefit the community - and the GPL isn't
doing a very good job at that now that redistribution is commercialized.