On 3/16/06, Thomas Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to solicit the community's opinion about a new commercial > service I am considering offering. > You will pay me $5,000/yr for every CPU on which your installation > of a GNU Hello binary, compiled from the sources I provide, is > runnable. For this purpose, multi-core chips count as a single CPU. > > I reserve the right to come and inspect your facilities and records, > twice per year, during business hours, to ensure compliance. If I > discover that you have made a binary derived from the sources I > provide runnable on more CPUs than you have paid for, you will owe > me $5,000 per additional CPU, plus 4% interest compounded monthly -- > because presumptively, that means you are using my support services > to a greater degree than you've paid for. > Do I own money if I put a binary on an additional machine and I do not want to use your support service on that additional machine no matter what problems may rise?
And if I give the source to my neighbor so he can run on his machine, and he does not want to use the support service? I would guess if the answer to both is no, then there is no conflict with the GPL. Of course this is my personal view. > It therefore follows that you are not free to copy and use my > version of GNU Hello without additional restriction. > > Of course, this contract doesn't override the GPL. Far from it. > It's just that if you exercise your GPL rights in certain ways > you will owe me more money. > -t > _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
