[H-GEN] GPL question

Anthony Towns aj at azure.humbug.org.au
Tue Jan 6 23:21:51 EST 2004


On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:25:12PM +1000, Harry Phillips wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> >I thought the situation in Australia was that you don't need a license, but
> >if you're presented with one, you have to follow its terms, or something
> >similar.
> I thought all software came with a licence, even if it's a "here is the 
> program, the source code, the lot, you do anything you like to it"

Free software does (it has to, or you can't give copies to your friends).
Commercial software doesn't _have to_ -- someone can give you a copy
of a program they wrote, and you can just use it. It almost always does
though, because, hey, everyone else does it.

Cheers,
aj

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