On 10/17/05, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 17, 2005, at 2:18 pm, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
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>> http://dansguardian.org/?page=copyright2
>>
>> I read that as "your friend can download it for non-commercial use &
>> then distribute it to you for free under the GPL for you to use for
>> commercial purposes".
>
> I don't agree. In my opinion the legal status of this document is that
> it carries two licences but no option to freely chose between them if
> you're using it commercially.
OK I have read this thing probably a dozen times and here is really what I understand him to say. You are not buying licenses to the code or the use of that code. The code in itself is GPL regardless of who you are (commercial or not). The license you are paying for is the ability to download the code from his site. Private users can download the code as much as they would like but commercial users can only download once unless they buy a license then they can download as much as they want. Thus if you use a distro like Debian you can install the package and be legally OK because you didn't download the code from his site, you downloaded the binary from Debian. So its all about downloads not really selective licensing if I read this correctly.
-Mike
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Michael E. Crute
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Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware.
"In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?"
