Re: Code donations for RPGUI initiative

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Andelin skrev:
> > From: Aaron Bartell
> > Have I convinced you to donate anything yet? :-)
> >     
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> No.  As an individual programmer myself, I have fundamental issues against open source.  GPL v3 in particular essentially removes all rights from original authors and places them in the public domain.  Intellectual property rights intrinsically 
It most definitively does not.   You are probably thinking about the MIT 
license or the BSD license or thinking about that the Free Software 
Foundation requires people to give them the copyright (probably to be 
able to manage their software contributions).

GPL is actually extremely picky about rights, namely your right as a 
user to be able to modify any GPL program, instead of only the original 
author, and the copyright is used to leverage that.  

Additionally many GPL programs are dual licensed where the alternate 
license costs money.  Only the original author can do that, since all 
others only have access to the program by accepting the GPL license 
which does not allow removing the license.

Is the above what you were thinking about?