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According to Sander Schins on 9/17/2009 2:14 AM: > Dear Sir/Madam, Your approach of blast-mailing a large set of disparate projects is a bit inappropriate. My reply will focus only on GNU Coreutils, which is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 because it is Free Software (as opposed to the broader category of open source software). > Before we wanted to make that step we would like to contact the authors off > the open-source tools with the question if they would agree that we will > sell the live-cd to this company. Please go read the Free Software Foundation page about the GPLv3 license, which should cover your questions on what you are and are not allowed to do with Coreutils. Among other things, the GPL does not restrict your freedom to earn money from distributing open source. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney Furthermore, the GPL explicitly states that anyone can use or distribute Free Software without contacting the original authors, as long as they abide be certain terms to preserve those same freedoms for others (this is freedom 2 of the four essential freedom). I'm paraphrasing here; read the actual GPL for the real wording. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html If you have further questions about using GPL software on your CD, contact a lawyer, and/or ask the folks at licens...@gnu.org. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqyI5oACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDjIQCgzlkC5VO35jkdJ8JggpswbgdH S9UAoISXgGnO1NF2uSJRNY9eBxUC9k5I =+okz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
