Thierry Boudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2005-07-11, helios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Bizarrement, ce matin, j'ai tenté de trouver les sources de ce >>> logiciel "libre", et je n'y suis pas arrivé. C'est bien beau de >>> clammer *GPL* si le clampin moyen n'arrive pas à télécharger le >>> tarball. >>> >> voila deux liens pour la version GPL et il marches a l'instant >> >> http://v-2001.easyco.net/app/openqm-dl.htm >> > Je ne demande pas un formulaire d'enregistrement, je souhaite > juste un lien vers le tarball des sources. > >> http://helios.services.free.fr/openqm/ > > Donc, tu wareze une appli commerciale ? > > Je re-demande: où sont les sources de ce logiciel en GPL ? > > [note for gnu.misc.discuss] > > "helios" claims (and make a lot of noise) about a pick/multivalued > database. See http://www.openqm.org/tiki-index.php for more noise. > Bur it's quasi impossible to find the sources, even on sourceforge.
So what? > "helios" is a nasty troll, who use the term "GPL" in a very unfair > style. Maybe gnu/fsf legals can take two minuts to look at that. The GPL does not imply that you have a right to get the software in the first place. The GPL only guarantees you that _if_ you receive the software, _then_ you receive its sources licensed under the GPL. A sole copyright holder also has the right to license the software under different schemes, too (even binary-only). Only if Helios is not the sole copyright holder (and part of the stuff it has no copyright on was licensed to it under the GPL) is it _required_ to license the results under the GPL, including source code. But while that restricts the offer they can make, it does not restrict the price and access: they can ask whatever money they want for it, and make access arbitrarily complicated. They are just required that the product, however priced or available, is then licensed under the GPL and includes the source code. So you better explain what exactly is your complaint. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
