On 7/27/06, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're confusing free as in the GPL and free as in beer. The GPL does not restrict people from charging for their products, it requires that if you release the source code for them.
But is it or is it not legal to install the binary (compiled) version on more computers without a license? GPL should be free, also when using the binary form of the software.
There is a gray area,
It looks as if this gray area is big enough, so that it could happen that companies will take a distribution of Linux, modify it, maybe add some proprietary software to it, and then sell it as a proprietary software - like MS-Windows. They may also include technical means to prevent people from installing it without a license (such as "activation" in Windows XP). The yearly subscription for online security patches is a step in this direction. Uri. ================================================================= 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]
