Wired Article on the GPL
Chip Salzenberg
chip at valinux.com
Fri Mar 31 21:51:06 UTC 2000
According to Richard Watts:
> Of course, the author also gets vicarious benefits from the
> perceived greater reliability of the software he uses which is based
> on the software he's written, even if none of it was actually
> distributed to him [...]
I've got a better argument there (though, of course, IANAL):
What makes a consideration valuable to a person depends on his value
system. For example, most people like money, but some people care
about other things more. So if free software is important to the
original author, I would call an addition to the body of free software
a "valuable consideration". And surely a test case would prominently
feature the original author testifying to that effect.
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip at valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K
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