On Friday 25 March 2005 00:08, Roberto Mello wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:54:21PM +0100, Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > > What I will sell maybe is binary packages made from this script. What are > > your opinions on that ? I am not selling licenses for GNUmed which cannot > > be done. I am selling the service of providing prepackaged binaries which > > contains code that is freely available. I will charge for providing these > > packages on CD as well as for the CD it self. I am not claiming to be > > authorized by the FOSS project GNUmed but do this on my own account. > > You're free to sell branded/boxed copies of GNUmed for those that want to > buy it. When you redistribute binaries, just make sure the sources go > along. I don't think the GPL says that you have to make the software > downloadable for free, but if someone buys a copy from you, they'll be free > to > redistribute copies of it, just like you. > > If you brand it with a name trademarked by you, those redistributing your > "version" may not want to use your trademarked name, but they can still > redistribute the software, make it better and compete with you. > > You're also free to sell services based on the software. Thanks for all your input. That makes it more transparent.
> > I don't see any problems with that. In fact, it's part of the beauty of > free software. I say go ahead. I've wanted to do the same but haven't had > time yet. I was always hoping that someone(person/company) would come and do this and the GNUmed project would work well together with that someone. Five years (?) have passed and no such thing happend. A few days ago it just hit me. That someone must be me !? So I am doing what I hoped someone else would do for GNUmed. We will see where that leads. I have no idea. > > -Roberto -- Sebastian Hilbert Leipzig / Germany [www.openmed.org] -> PGP welcome, HTML ->/dev/null ICQ: 86 07 67 86 -> No files, no URL's VoIP: callto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] My OS: Suse Linux. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
