And if they own the copyright to the entier work, they can relicense it commercially no problemo.
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Ben Collins-Sussman <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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. > -- Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc. Google's Open Source and Developer programs can be found at http://code.google.com Personal Site and Weblog: http://dibona.com -- 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.
