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For GPL it's ever easierFor GPL it's ever easierPosted Aug 15, 2008 7:22 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: ``Economic benefit'' a time bomb? by Max.Hyre Parent article: Why the JMRI decision matters
US Code Collection, Title 17 (copyrights), Chapter 1, Section 101: 'Definitions': 'The term "financial gain" includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works.' GPL is created around this "expectation of receipt" of other copyrighted works. It's GPL's much discussed "viral nature". When the law itself claims it's called financial gain it's kinda hard to imply it's not "economic benefit". But yes, if you'll find gullible judge anything is possible - but that's the fact of life.
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financial gain should be pretty easy to demonstrate, regardless Posted Aug 15, 2008 17:42 UTC (Fri) by stevenj (guest, #421) [Link] Even without that, it should be pretty easy to demonstrate financial benefits to authors of free software. For example, I personally have received job offers, consulting contracts, speaking invitations (which in turn improve my professional prospects), etc. as a direct result of free software that I've written. I suspect that authors of any widely used free software have similar experiences.
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