From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 10 03:26:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CB216A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 03:26:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grover.logicsquad.net (ppp34-103.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.34.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3B2F43D1F for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 03:26:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paulh@logicsquad.net) Received: (qmail 92728 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Apr 2004 10:26:53 -0000 Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 19:56:53 +0930 From: "Paul A. Hoadley" To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040410102653.GA92584@grover.logicsquad.net> References: <20040410074515.GS85168@grover.logicsquad.net> <20040410084629.GB8301@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040410084629.GB8301@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:26:56 -0000 --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:46:29AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > There's no problem with selling GPL'd programs for money. As the > cant goes "Free speech, not free beer". I guess I'm interpreting Section 1 too restrictively then. I took "You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy" to be fairly limiting on the magnitude of this fee. I guess it's not then. > All you have to do to comply with the GPL is make available the > sources to the software you're using to your customers, or let them > know how they can retrieve them from a third party. In this case, > probably just pointing them in the direction of the FreeBSD servers > would be sufficient. OK. > If you're dead against redistributing GPL'd stuff, you'll find it > difficult to produce a completely GPL-free setup: removing things > like the C compiler and gdb and texinfo is easy enough, but such > things as readline and the regex libraries are harder to deal with. I'm not against it. I just want to make sure I get the specifics of the license exactly right. :-) Thanks a lot for your input, Matthew. --=20 Paul. mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAd8vt730Z/jysbzIRApCXAJ4n2hqL664To6Pdp2pEu8e8288oNgCfb72Q ZYh9zUF0caaTrEwaK2abPMc= =a5Lo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK--