[dundee] Slashdot comment

Andrew Clayton andrew at digital-domain.net
Mon Jun 14 16:59:26 UTC 2010


On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:56:39 +0100, azmodie wrote:

> Context: poster looking for way to sort and tag photos. (windows 7).
> 
> Poster: suggests some opensource solution.
> 
> anonymouse troll : He doesn't want a GPL Linux version because if he
> uses it, his photos become derivative works and therefore he loses
> all ownership of his photos, his camera, his computer, and everything
> that he photographed becomes GPL'd which means, if the guy
> photographed his girlfriend, all of the FOSS community has to sleep
> with her.
> 
> 
> Though that was highly amusing.
> 
> although i suppose although thats not true of g[pl. i'm sure it may
> be for facebook.

It's shocking how widespread is the misunderstanding of the GPL. (My
License of choice)

> azmodie

Andrew



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