Quoting Ely Levy, from the post of Fri, 23 Apr: > and most importatly I saw in the hebnuker site that they offer > for 300$ to remove the GPL from the code they made (which is fine) > BUT they say this doesn't remove the GPL from the phpnuke which they > require 300$ as well to remove, so if I "buy" the hebnuker version without > the phpnuke license doesn't it break GPL very badly?
Sadly, I don't think so. but then again, that's why it's an option and not a must. If they sell you a patch to a GPL program which you then use only in-house, it's perfectly legal because it does not break any GPL clause. the problems start when you want to redistribute the code, and you based your changes on non-GPL additions, but then again, why would you want to do that? Isn't that why you payed the extra dollars? might as well take the GPL version for free and do whatever you want with it... If I understand correctly, there is no difference other than the license... I think this is similar to my home kernel running with xmga for DRI, or my laptop running with nvidia drivers. they taint the kernel, but they are legal to run because I brought them and compiled them locally myself, I'm not intending to redistribute the result. -- Astral traveler Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
