On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:07 AM, mooredan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am a member of the s3fs project. The owner has a commercial product > based upon the open source code and advertises it on the google code > project. It can be seen here: http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/ > > Is this advertising allowed (or even appropriate)? > There's nothing inherently wrong with a pointer to a commercial fork of the software. However, just glancing at the project, it seems like the code is under a GPL license, and thus the derived commercial fork must also be under the GPL. I don't see the author offering the full source code for the commercial product, so it seems like a big GPL violation. (If the project were under an Apache or BSD-type license, what he's doing would be perfectly legal.) That said, we are not lawyers. You and the other committers to the project should do your own investigation on this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
