Hi, IANAL.
Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:56:02 +0100, Arnt wrote in message >> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:34:15 -0500, Chris wrote in message [SNIP] >>> What subsection of the GPL requires that advertisements for >>> re-distributions of the product include the fact that the >>> software is covered by the GPL in the advertising itself? >> ..the first line of section 0, states: "0. This License applies to >> any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the >> copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of >> this General Public License.", in the "TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR >> COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION" section of the GNU GENERAL >> PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 >> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html . This only says what the license applies to. It does not say that you need to refer to the license when offering the "work". You might be referring to section 1: > You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source > code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you > conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate > copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the > notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any > warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this > License along with the Program. However, even that only says that the references to the License must be left intact on a _copy_, not on any offer for a copy. I don't see any incompliance with the GPL just from the eBay offer. However, when I'm about to buy something on eBay, I typically do some searches beforehand to get a price comparison. Searching for FlightGear on Google gives me a link to the FlightGear homepage on the second item. The link and the summary should very much look like an official homepage to anybody doing such a search so hopefully they are inclined to look and find out that it's downloadable for free. However, the summary text provided by Google is not on the main page of the FlightGear homepage, so maybe it's a good idea to extend that short sentence "FlightGear is an open-source, multi-platform flight simulator." on top to a short paragraph, saying that it's freely available for download, etc. Not everybody knows what "open-source" means. Cheers, Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
