Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 01:04:54 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> To: Chris England <cengland@obscurity.org>, otter@tig.com.au Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very basic questions... Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990510010454.00976e10@mail.bfm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990509193554.30327A-100000@divine> References: <3.0.5.32.19990510111738.007b0150@pop.tig.com.au>
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At 19:41 09-05-1999 -0700, Chris England wrote: >Unfortunately book stores, computer retailers etc... You mean book publishers and software publishers, don't you. Book stores and computer retailers are just resellers with very little markup (especially computer retailers). > are taking advantage >of it, by selling a little book with the cd and avoiding violation of its >GNU policy by saying "The customer is not paying for Linux, they are >paying for the book". Actually, GNU licence explicitly says that software covered by it may be sold as long as it includes the source code. You can sell Linux and keep the money if anyone is willing to buy it from you. You can charge a thousand dollars for it, say outright you are selling Linux, and you are perfectly legal (whether anyone would be willing to pay that much is another question :). That is one of the reasons many programmers do not like the GNU licence: Others are allowed to make money from the sweat of their brow while they make nothing. Of course, that is true of the BSD licence as well. But the BSD licence does not take the rights of the programmer away. Adam --- Want to design your own web counter? Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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