You could charge $1,000 for the modified source but the purchaser would have the right to give copies away as long as he complied with the license.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 12:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS specific commits (was: ... "awk" ...) On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 11:13 AM Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2019 13:58:20 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > > >If you've got a C compiler you can build "gawk" yourself. It's already > >been ported to z/OS and I can see there are z/OS specific commits as > >recently as a few months ago. > > > >https://secure-web.cisco.com/1uW3-ld0yEsT2HlwUIXZpyCUydLZ008AtCZCHSVSHua5bq_qnuddX_naIBGNKYWD9GCxC01HPDkhCw5cLikz8Lulx-IpJUJZjgUWIAcWJNCXlL21t2w1wthU51k4TvjdSc-T31M2KClean81wToNnQR-juiOYKk3Au7nwolF79q_M66ttyPis_w16Bp5BRBh10FZOY9R3dh14vAzhZR9DfPMCkOD1jGPZZtWS7UOIhk1Xx_DWURdLxaVnc6ZTWw_OaMaWlF7ZJtVETxZGNKt9ZTbhO25UlGG97nVLkvHcR8Wzb_qrgNwqW0YD8o1TaeLiz2A19IftO-gHJA8J-7uDlmTOMjKf6GCirTzhDuIkgohlxXHo02e_o7xIq0ih2Rni/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fredox-os%2Fgawk > > > Are the z/OS specific mods to other GNU utilities, mainly by Rocket, > likewise > committed to the primary source tree(s), or independent forks? > > I understand GPL requires that the source be somehow available. > IIRC, Rocket will supply the source if you request it. It is not, IMO, easily available because you must ask for it and give Rocket information. As best as I know, asking for information before supplying source is allowed by the GPL. That is the "price" for the software. GPL addresses the right to source (free as in freedom), but does not require that it be gratis (free as in beer). I just reviewed the license. It does not put any sort of restriction on the "price" itself. So I guess that I could try taking some GNU software, modifying it for z/OS, then charge a 1_000_000 dollars for the modified source. Not that I would. > > -- gil > -- This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
