Quoting Paul Jakma (paul at clubi.ie):
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Frank Murphy wrote:
>> >http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2004/tc20040813_1107_tc120.htm> >
> >Some of it has been gone over, but an interesting slant.
>> "<blub> <blub> we cant take GPL code and 'proprietise' it like we can
> with code under that nice, charming and business-friendly BSD
> licence."
Actually, they can: All they have to do is offer a sufficiently
compelling sum of money to all the copyright owners in question, by way
of inducement for a copy under a licence more agreeable to the
prospective buyers. _Exactly_ as with proprietary software, by the way.
A large number of companies use GPLv2 in precisely that way, from MySQL
AB on down. But some people prefer to complain their way into a free lunch.
Maybe someone should write to _Business Week_ and Mr. Stephen H.
Wildstrom, columnist, and explain this "capitalism" concept to them.
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