This is what I thought.
Come on SAP, tweak your copy. What you should say:
"SAP DB does not affect the contractual requirements of regular SAP
products."
In otherwords, SAP DB IS GPL, and does not require maintenance contracts with
SAP, but regular SAP products do. Yet that's not what the copy in their news
announcement indicates.
So I'll look into SAP DB after all. Whoo hoo! ;->
Dave
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Subject: Re: [gnu.org #6677] Fwd: Re: SAP DB -- not GPL!
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:55:59 -0500
From: "Dave Turner via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It looks like SAP is saying that your license for SAP requires a
maintainance contract, whether or not you use the Free Software SAPDB.
Hope this helps.
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 10:35, FSF General Contact Address via RT wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 06:55:12AM -0500, David Weeks via RT wrote:
> > Perhaps you, or someone there could clarify this. SAP DB is claiming GPL
> > status, yet requireing a maintanance contract if you actually use it with
> > SAP solutions.
> >
> > Jesus thinks this is GPL, which it isn't, so I'm trying to educate the
> > list <blackdown> on the simple points of copyleft. Some sage words from
> > GNU itself could be persuasive.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with the details of licensing to be
> able to accurately explain what problems may be here. Moreover, people
> often spread misinformation and misunderstandings about our licenses. We
> wish we could respond to these matters, but we simply don't have the time
> -- we'd be doing little else if we did.
>
> I've forwarded your message to our licensing department; they will look
> into the issue and take appropriate action.
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-Dave Turner
GPL Compliance Engineer
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