On 09/23/10 06:53, Konstantin Svist wrote:
On 09/22/2010 09:05 PM, Abir Sadik wrote:
This is some really serious violation going on, and i hope someone
will do something about it. Some people who really dont know much
about opensource are actually buying from that seller, check his
On 23.09.10 09:56, g...@catking.net wrote:
On 09/23/10 06:53, Konstantin Svist wrote:
Wrong. Selling most open source software is perfectly legal, according
to the licenses
@ Konstantin
WRONG: selling the software is not allowed as you would see from the
licence snip that you posted. A
On 9/23/10, Abir Sadik wrote:
This is some really serious violation going on, and i hope someone will do
something about it.
In my experience there is nothing you can do about that, educating
that kind of repackagers is just wasting your time. We in Audacity
project tried dealing with this,
On 09/23/10 11:27, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 9/23/10, Abir Sadik wrote:
This is some really serious violation going on, and i hope someone will do
something about it.
In my experience there is nothing you can do about that, educating
that kind of repackagers is just wasting your time.
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:56:45 +0200, g...@catking.net wrote:
On 09/23/10 06:53, Konstantin Svist wrote:
On 09/22/2010 09:05 PM, Abir Sadik wrote:
This is some really serious violation going on, and i hope someone
will do something about it. Some people who really dont know much
about
Opinion:
Don't waste your time and energy on the actions of dishonest internet people.
There is a point to educating/warning/suing corporations (after all,
some level of accountability/legal responsibility is part of their
charter).
Not internet ghosts.
Nicolas Robidoux
As long as it seems clear that none of the actually affected parties
(i.e. the people who hold the copyright to parts of GIMP and other
(L)GPL-licensed bits bundled by the scammers) care about the alleged
problem or would consider doing anything, this discussion is mostly
pointless.
--tml
On 09/22/2010 09:05 PM, Abir Sadik wrote:
This is some really serious violation going on, and i hope someone
will do something about it. Some people who really dont know much
about opensource are actually buying from that seller, check his feedback.
People like this pop up on the net
On 09/23/10 15:16, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
As long as it seems clear that none of the actually affected parties
(i.e. the people who hold the copyright to parts of GIMP and other
(L)GPL-licensed bits bundled by the scammers) care about the alleged
problem or would consider doing anything, this
On 23.09.2010 06:05, Abir Sadik wrote:
Heyy..
I was looking for something on ebay and this is what i stumbled upon:
some seller or sellers are selling GIMP and many other open source
applications (vlc, pidgin) pretending as a distributor of the
softwares. check this seller
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 01:27:41PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 9/23/10, Abir Sadik wrote:
This is some really serious violation going on, and i hope someone will do
something about it.
In my experience there is nothing you can do about that, educating
that kind of repackagers
eBay has been notified of both the possible license infringement and
also of what they call fee avoidance--charging almost nothing for the
product, a percentage of which goes to eBay, and making their money on
their exorbitant shipping charges, on which eBay makes nothing. Between
these two
On 09/23/2010 02:00 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
That basically boils down to Why is there no GIMP Foundation? In my
sick and screwed imagination the answer would be Because there is
nobody willing to do all the bloody boring daily work required to
ensure prosperity of such an organization.
On 09/23/10 18:57, Chris Moller wrote:
eBay has been notified of both the possible license infringement and
also of what they call fee avoidance--charging almost nothing for the
product, a percentage of which goes to eBay, and making their money on
their exorbitant shipping charges, on which
On 09/23/2010 02:00 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
That basically boils down to Why is there no GIMP Foundation? In my
sick and screwed imagination the answer would be Because there is
nobody willing to do all the bloody boring daily work required to
ensure prosperity of such an
selling the software on ebay. In my country (germany) some people do not
have access to broadband internet and like to buy a CD of the software.
GIMP has been relatively often distributed on CDs that come with
relevant magazines, also in Germany. Very recently even, I know
because some of these
On 09/23/10 22:07, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
selling the software on ebay. In my country (germany) some people do not
have access to broadband internet and like to buy a CD of the software.
GIMP has been relatively often distributed on CDs that come with
relevant magazines, also in Germany. Very
Whether you have/had the authority
to grant that permission is another question.
I should note that nowadays such requests coming to me are for PSPI,
not GIMP itself, as I haven't built and distributed any GIMP binaries
in a long time. When they used to ask for permission to redistribute
GIMP,
On 23.09.2010 21:55, Alexia Death wrote:
The only way I can imagine Rise of the Mighty Gimp Foundation
happening is one of our lead developers and our cat herder(aka the Tie
Wearing Office Manager) quiting their day jobs and becoming starting
members of the foundation and its first full time
On 23 September 2010 21:55, Alexia Death alexiade...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote:
I suspect that a paid Foundation position might annoy some developers who
have
been busting their tails for years, for free.
Not really. We do it for fun
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