Marius Amado Alves said on Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 06:14:25PM +0100,: > "My employer sells commercial open source software. > It fully complies with the OSD--in fact, it is under the BSD license." > > Do you really sell the software (not support, not buy-out)?
With BSD and GPL, it is possible to *sell* software. If X is willing to pay Y for s/w written by Z, neither BSD or its variants, nor the GPL prevents it. > How have you been keeping people from giving copies of it away gratis > (hence invalidating your business)? Probably they provide support free of cost if the customer buys the software from them. But that is not the concern of this list. -- Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.port5.com >From The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) [devil]: LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3