Is it possible/impossible to develop proprietary software to run on linux?

[Reinhard Max]

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 at 12:22, paolo del bene wrote:

> ask to Richard Matthew Stallman if Free Software is only a question 
> of Religion, i think that he replies to you :-)

please stop this discussion or continue it outside of this list.

The original question was whether it is allowed to write and sell 
proprietary software that runs under Linux (which I am deliberately 
not calling GNU/Linux), and the answer to that is "Yes, as long as no 
code is used which has a license that forbids linking to proprietary 
code".

Everything else is outside the scope of this list, which is for 
discussing *legal* questions around the GPL and not for political, 
ideological, or religious (call it whatever you like) discussions 
about the pros and cons of the different development and licensing 
models that exist.

And yes, Paolo, it was *you* who took this discussion off topic by 
starting an inappropriate religious flamewar at a point where the 
questions had already been answered and the thread could have ended.

We've all heared and understood your opinions, so please stop it now!


Thanks,
Reinhard