Hi, argh, that was a painful thread to read... This is unfortunately a common misunderstanding about the term "Free" in "Free Software" (aka "Open Source"), namely "free" here refers to *FREEDOM*, not to price. In other words, the software preserves the *Freedom* of the user regarding this software, but it has nothing to do with the price tag!
You are allowed to sell such software, and in fact, this is what Richard Stallman did with early versions of his Emacs editor, and of course this was "Free Software" from the start. (and this is what Redhat, SUSE and other GNU/Linux distributions are effectively doing). Also, before writing guesses and uninformed opinions on mailing lists, it would be advisable to inform oneself first, as this just adds noise and further confusion! This http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html is usually a good starting point. Cheers, Reinhard. --------------------------------------- Reinhard Prix (Staff Scientist) Albert-Einstein Institut Callinstr 38, 30167 Hannover Germany Tel: +49 511 762 17154 Fax: +49 511 762 2784 --------------------------------------- On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Even if the software is under LGPL, you cannot remove the software from > LGPL by making modifications to it. In a combined work, you only have to > release the source for the portions that were originally LGPL, the rest of > the work can have some other license. > > Allowing source to be removed from LGPL by making minimal modifications > would mean that I could rename a variable in a function and claim to have > modified the source and therefore did not have to release the source. > > But like Dr. Anderson said: Your best choice is to find a good lawyer. > > jm7 > > > > Alan Sun > <newsbt...@gmail. > com> To > Sent by: [email protected] > <boinc_dev-bounce cc > [email protected] [email protected], > u> [email protected] > Subject > Re: [boinc_dev] Two questions, one > 10/14/2010 01:29 about the BOINC license, the other > PM is related to the technique. > > > > > > > > > > > Hi John, > > Well, The GPL restricts the software to open source and free for itself. > For > example, if a software is under the GPL license, I cannot sell itself; or I > can sell it, but I have to tell my customers that they can get it free in > other ways, and I have to open the software source code. > > But if a software is under the LGPL, then I can use it in a commercial > software product, and sell this product. For example, the BOINC is under > the > LGPL, and I did some customization on it to get the commercial product > "CNIOB", and then, I can sell the CNIOB, and don't need to open the source > code of my modifications. > > Am I right on this? > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:52 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I believe that both GPL and LGPL disallow any charge for the software in >> excess of the cost of the media and distribution, but you may charge for >> ancillary services such as support. >> >> jm7 >> >> >> >> David Anderson >> <[email protected] >> ey.edu> To >> Sent by: <[email protected]> >> <boinc_dev-bounce cc >> [email protected] >> u> Subject >> Re: [boinc_dev] Two questions, one >> about the BOINC license, the other >> 10/14/2010 11:50 is related to the technique. >> AM >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> BOINC is distributed under the LGPL license. LGPL != GPL. >> Neither license prohibits selling anything AFAIK. >> >> >> On 14-Oct-2010 7:13 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> > Question 1: The GPL states that if you redistribute the executable, > you >> > have to redistribute the source. So, if you are using it for your own >> use, >> > or internally within one company, you do not have to share the source. >> > However, if you give it to anyone (and you are not allowed to sell it) >> you >> > will have to supply the source as well. NOTE, that since I am not an >> > employee of UCB, this is merely an informed opinion, not a reflection > of >> > how they see the world. >> _______________________________________________ >> boinc_dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >> To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and >> (near bottom of page) enter your email address. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> boinc_dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >> To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and >> (near bottom of page) enter your email address. >> > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
