GPL & "non profit use only"

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Jos Visser (OSP) <josv at osp.nl> wrote:

> There is a whole legal minefield around people creating custom
> licenses or forks of existing licenses (e.g. the SANE license). In
> this case the interesting issue is if you take the source code, change
> it and make the source code available again. Because of the viral
> effect of the GPLv2 the modified source code is also licensed under
> the GPLv2, but I wonder if the proviso is also viral.

 of course it is - _if_ the proviso itself was explicitly added as
such, in legalistic terminology which conveys same: otherwise... no :)

 but that's not (imo) the main point: the point is, the GPL's been
dicked with, thus making it necessary for people to look closely at
the damn license, evaluate it point-by-point if they want to create a
derivative work or combine it with other GPL-based code.

 mind-numbing.

 just find another piece of _properly_ free software, that doesn't
have a stupid license and a stupid licensee.

 l.