Is it GPL violation, if company modifies gfx layout or qmailadmin without
releasing changes to public?
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Eero
- Original Message -
From: Bill Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Eero Volotinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [qmailadmin] Possible GPL violation in use of qmailadmin?
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 08:14, Eero Volotinen wrote:
Is it GPL violation, if company
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Eero
- Original Message -
From: Bill Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Eero Volotinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [qmailadmin] Possible GPL violation in use of qmailadmin?
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 08:14, Eero
Hello,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You cannot *SELL* a GPL'd product without permission from
the author.
Sorry, you may did a mistake here.
GPL licence never restrict such *SELLING aspects* as you mentioned
above... Anyone can earn money by selling services around the GPL'd
software.
You
Here's info on what to do if it's a violation:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html
Since Inter7 is the copyright holder, they're the only ones who can
legally act on the violation. Others on the list can assist in
collecting information on a possible violation though.
Note that
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 09:29 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
Screengrab is in address http://ping-viini.org/~eero/qmailadmin.png
What language is that in? Finnish? If it's a language that we don't
already have, it should definitely go into the distribution.
I can't tell by looking at
: [qmailadmin] Possible GPL violation in use of qmailadmin?
Here's info on what to do if it's a violation:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html
Since Inter7 is the copyright holder, they're the only ones who can
legally act on the violation. Others on the list can assist
* Eero Volotinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well. Hard to say.
What? If you want people to be able to reply to your mails with a
non-broken MUA, don't top-post.
We all still can send mail to finnmill and say that they are violating
GPL and they should release their changes to public.
We
am not a laywer, maybe some with *more* knowledge can
simplify
this case?
Well.
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Eero
- Original Message -
From: Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Eero Volotinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [qmailadmin] Possible GPL violation
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 10:00 AM, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
The GPL governs and restricts distribution and work based on GPL
software.
It says nothing about having to release code or changes made to the
public.
I had a similar discussion recently on the vpopmail list. I think this
may
Did you read carefully what you published?
At 26/02/03 26/02/03 -0700, Tom Collins wrote:
1. You may copy and
distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 10:59 AM, tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote:
It says clearly modify AND distribute.
Are they selling/distributing the modified work? If not, they can do what they want.
According to the person who reported the violation, they are selling it.
I agree, that if it's a
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 13:33, Tom Collins wrote:
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 10:59 AM, tonix (Antonio Nati)
wrote:
It says clearly modify AND distribute.
Are they selling/distributing the modified work? If not, they can do
what they want.
According to the person who
: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [qmailadmin] Possible GPL violation in use of qmailadmin?
I will send them an email.
The only questions to ask are:
1) Are they distributing binaries?
2) If they are, can I have the source code?
The GPL lets them distribute as long
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