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On Friday 17 August 2018 00:35:30 Dan Ritter wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 07:48:28PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Basicly, Brian, IMNSHO, the gpl is saying TANSTAAFL, a concept their
> > MBA degree professors never explained. I'm afraid I have to chuckle
> > everytime I see it being enforced. An MBA degree means they've had
> > common sense beat out of them. And they willingly subjected
> > themselves to it.
>
> Now, I'm up to mock an MBA as much as anyone, but every MBA who
> paid any attention knows what the GPL is. Here are the words
> that they can understand, should it come up:
>
> The GPL is a simple and straightforward blanket IP license which
> requires an unusual form of payment: the consideration on your
> part is to publish the entire codebase of derivative works, at
> no additional cost, to anyone who receives such a derivative
> work from you in any manner, under the same GPL license. In
> addition, there is a royalty-free patent usage grant provision
> for derivative works, and a few other minor explanations.
>
> But in this particular case, I think it was probably a spammer
> or scammer looking for targets.
>
> -dsr-
Entirely probable.


-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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Request for information David Wilson <inboxemailer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-16 23:50 +0200
  Re: Request for information Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-17 00:40 +0200
    Re: Request for information Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-17 00:50 +0200
      Re: Request for information Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-17 01:50 +0200
        Re: Request for information Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-17 02:20 +0200
        Re: Request for information Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2018-08-17 05:50 +0200
        Re: Request for information Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-08-17 06:40 +0200
          Re: Request for information Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-17 06:50 +0200
            Re: Request for information <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-17 09:00 +0200
              Re: Request for information Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-17 09:20 +0200
                Re: Request for information <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-17 09:30 +0200

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