Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 19:56:53 +0930 From: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale? Message-ID: <20040410102653.GA92584@grover.logicsquad.net> In-Reply-To: <20040410084629.GB8301@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040410074515.GS85168@grover.logicsquad.net> <20040410084629.GB8301@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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--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--
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