Thanks. Though, his particular implementation is patented, hence his
reluctance to release it under the GPL.

Shachar Tal
Verint Systems



-----Original Message-----
From: Gilad Ben-Yossef [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 7:25 PM
To: Tal, Shachar; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: GPL Licensing Question


On Sunday 26 October 2003 19:06, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> On Sunday 26 October 2003 16:26, Tal, Shachar wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a GPL licensing question that came from a customer of mine:
> >
> > That customer is currently developing a distributed client-server, where
> > the communication protocols between clients and servers are non-standard
> > (i.e. not HTTP or likes of it). The customer wishes to include
> > somewhat-modified GPLed software components in its client software (e.g.
> > python, GTK or LAM/MPICH), while keeping his server implementation,
> > protocol implementation and part of client code proprietary, in order to
> > actually make money off the software.

Oh, I also forgot to add that you can make money off of Free Software as
well, 
so that's no execuse. I guess s/he is just greedy ;-)

Gilad

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