On Wed, 17 May 2006 00:12:53 +0200 (CEST), Anders wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > * Arnt Karlsen -- Friday 12 May 2006 18:45: > >> Aye, and AFAIII, it jjust says contact some guy for commercial use. > >> Nothing on commercial distribution, which is allowed under the GPL. > > > > And, of course, commercial *use* is also allowed by the GPL and > > can't be forbidden. Another illegal restriction. But what is the > > consequence?! That one can ignore the restriction? I'm afraid that's > > not the case before the law. Rather, the offender (Mark B.) loses > > the right to use and distribute *any* GPL'ed software. Linux, KDE, > > GNOME, ... ... *FlightGear*! I'd say he should be educated (with a > > baseball bat :-). > > Hi, > > I think that the bad formulation on the ARToolkit page is an > unintentional mistake rather than an attempt to add restrictions to > the GPL license. The distribution archive contains only the standard > GPL and mentions, as far I can see, no further restrictions anywhere. > It it also labeled as GPL on the project's sourceforge page (which is > also where the download is located). ..that means we could try educate him, with Melchior's bat as a backup option. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
