From: Tony Williams 

Geo. wrote:
> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
> news:3dfcfd77$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>That's one way to look at it. I tend to think from the POV of the author
>>- anything other than public domain is attaching strings to other
>>people's use of the software. The conditions might be "pay me"
>>(commercial) , "give me recognition" (BSD), or
"support the cause" (GPL).
>
>
> Or maybe it's just an attitude that "if I don't make money off my code then
> nobody else should either"..

There does seem to be an element of that, yes, and it's the author's
decision to make. Just don't try to tell me that code with those
restrictions is free.

--
Tony

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