On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:14:21 AM Harry van Haaren did opine: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Tristan Matthews > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > FYI, you're well within your rights to "earn money" from GPL software, > > see: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html > > Although you are right in the technical sense, I don't agree profiting > from other peoples work on moral grounds. > > For example: http://www.illusionmage.com/ is a site that will sell you a > copy of Blender, with a rebranded logo. Because Blender is GPL, any > modifications must also be GPL. So the author of "Illusionmage" created > a patch (available http://www.illusionmage.com/disclaimer.htm) and now > sells the whole package for 47$ a pop. > > Although this technically complies with the GPL, I find it abusive of > the GPL on moral grounds. I must agree with you that indeed selling GPL > is allowed in the technical sense though. -H
The GPL still has teeth. However if this reseller is using the profits to fund improvements and/or bug fixing, AND those patches are being contributed back, then I have no huge moral problems with it. It may resemble a wine vs crossover thing, if you want the latest, buy crossover. If wine will run your app, that is ok too. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> You can't go home again, unless you set $HOME. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
