well hebnukers also distribute their version 2.0 for a payment of 20$ like phpnuke people does. to "donators" since in this kind of stuff the source code is the program the question if you are allowed to do it or not is intersting, would the people who bought it be allowed to give it away for free? would the fact that they might not sell the next version (guessing) to the people who does concidared as GPL breaking?
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Ira Abramov wrote: > 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] > > ================================================================= 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]
