Yes, I think we should.

Marc Krahenbuhl
Lausanne
Suisse
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wim Godden wrote:

> Well, I have a very interesting read for everyone on this list :
>
> First I received a mail about ProVSD. I then asked :
> "Is ProVSD the continuation of FreeVSD or a completely new product rewritten from
> scratch ?"
>
> The reply was :
> "ProVSD is a new product but it is not rewritten from scratch but is the
> commercial version of freeVSD.
>
> freeVSD was open source and since then we have made an enormous amount of
> modifications to VSD, now ProVSD. It has a lot more functionality and
> expandability than freeVSD and all information regarding the latest release
> can be found on our new website www.idaya.com"
>
> My reply :
> "Since freeVSD was released as GPL, where can I obtain the source code for ProVSD
> ?"
>
> Reply from Idaya :
> "As ProVSD has now been launched commercially, it is no longer under the GPL
> code. We now own the source and it is closed I am afraid. Apologies if this
> has caused any inconvenience."
>
> And finally my reply :
> "Code that has been released as GPL, can never be released as closed source
> later. Therefor, you are legally obliged to release the code.
>
> Additionally, you don't own the full source of freeVSD. Part of the source code
> was written by non-Idaya-employees. The code is owned by their original creators
> and released underl GPL by them. As a result, you can't charge money for that
> code, nor can you make it closed source."
>
> Anyone want to file a complaint at the Free Software Foundation for violation of
> GPL ?
>
> Dave Cost wrote:
>
> > Tim,
> >
> > when will the 1.4.10 be available to the open-source community?
> > I'm concerned with the tactics idaya is taking to promote its ProVSD stuff
> > :-((
> >
> > Dave.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Sellar
> > Sent: marted� 27 novembre 2001 0.58
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: RH 7.2 pkgs & protftpd
> >
> > We intend to get freeVSD to a stage where it requires as few patched files
> > as possible. We implemented pam_vsd in order to remove patches which simply
> > checked against the vsd privilege file. ProFTP is an example of this, so
> > from 1.4.10 a patched version of ProFTP is not required...
> >
> > Tim
> >
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