On 4/23/07, Derek Kalweit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VNC was released as GNU. In the GNU terms, it says:
General Public License, as Ed points out. GNU's Not Unix. > [2] b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that > in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any > part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third > parties under the terms of this License. The license applies to the copyrighted code (well, copy lefted). If other authors were to write code that read and wrote the same protocol, they could license that however they wanted. In fact, "Designed and built from the ground up by the original inventors of VNC," Cite: http://www.realvnc.com/products/personal/ They did. > Since RealVNC Personal is clearly a derivative work of VNC in general, Not so clearly. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
