From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/04/26 Message-ID: <7g263k$mom$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 471091702 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7fjucn$k4p$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <7fkl3v$1e2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7fl5ac$9sh$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7fl9q5$ab7@drn.newsguy.com> <7foo6s$qbm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <37209ca6.1133249@news.pacbell.net> <7fudch$hsv$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3723c38b@eeyore.callnetuk.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x6.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Apr 26 17:00:39 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3723c38b@eeyore.callnetuk.com>, "Nick Roberts" wrote: > Suppose party B obtains a work (of software), under the > GPL, from party A (paying nothing for it). Then suppose > party B modifies this work to form work which they then > sell to party C (who is not aware of its GPL heritage) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Here is the copyright violation. When the software is sold to party C, it is fine to charge anything you like, the GPL has nothing at all to say about software distribution costs (except for requiring reasonable incremental costs for source distribution), but it DOES require that the deriviative software be distributed under the GPL. If C is unaware of this, it presumably means that this requirement of the GPL has been violated, and that hence B has no permission to make a copy for C. > for a substantial amount of money. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No issue here, anyone can sell GPL'ed software to anyone else for any amount of money the buyer is willing to pay! -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own