All these people are
expending a considerable amount of their time and effort - free of charge - doing useful work for
the community. Those who develop, those who test, those who answer
questions are all working. It's insulting to suggest that you can
charge money - no matter how little - for riding on their coattails,
and taking advantage of their work.
> may I use openldap instead
of ldap ?
LDAP is a standard. All
implementations are supposed to follow the standard, and be
inter-operable. OpenLDAP is an
implementation of LDAP - an OSS implementation, as it happens, just
like ASSP is. Most OSS software is released under a license that
prevents people from taking the open source software, which they
(usually) got for free, and incorporating it in some software that they
charge money for without making it also open source..
ASSP
is licensed under the GNU General Public License http://assp.sourceforge.net/fom/cache/94.html. The GNU license does *NOT* prevent you from
charging for the distribution of OSS software - for example to cover
the cost of shipping, cost of support, etc., but it *DOES* prevent you
from incorporating, using or distributing the software in any way
without granting everyone else the same rights that you have enjoyed
from the original authors. Simply put: if you gain any benefit from the
OSS community, you must give back to the community
OpenLDAP has its own
license terms, which you would be required to follow if you incorporate
their code.
> I think that I'll not
share it for now , however I will sell it (next days) at a very very
low price , more a donation than a price.
So, by creating and
releasing software that makes use of ASSP and / or OpenLDAP and charging for it, you
piss off many of the people on this list - and probably the OpenLDAP lists too - but you may do
so legally. By making that software proprietary, by not sharing it, and
by not following the appropriate license conditions, you may find
yourself in court - from both the ASSP community and perhaps from OpenLDAP.org / University of Michigan.
So, saying "I'll not
share it for now" is your main mistake,
in my opinion.
IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer),
but does that answer the question?
* One will often hear the
"free beer" / "free speech" analogy in discussions of OSS. Different
OSS licenses have different things to say about the "free beer" part,
but they pretty well all incorporate the "free speech" part.
Kind regards,
William Stucke
ZAnet Internet Services (Pty) Ltd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://www.zanet.co.za
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