On 22 Apr 2007, at 18:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 22 April 2007, Tom Chilton wrote:
Not really seeing as it is a digital delivery....
So, what is your point?
"this is good thing as it allows those without
broadband to get the product."
"[It's] Not really [a good thing in this case] seeing as it is a
digital delivery...."
My point was that in this case it is not a good thing as it does not
allow those without broadband to get the product.
Below is a copy of the license that OpenOffice is
distributed under. In the third paragraph below they cover
the sale issue.
...Preamble
The licenses for most software are designed to take away
your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU
General Public Licenses are intended to guarantee your
freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the
software is free for all its users.
This license, the Lesser General Public License, applies to
some specially designated software packages--typically
libraries--of the Free Software Foundation and other
authors who decide to use it. You can use it too, but we
suggest you first think carefully about whether this
license or the ordinary General Public License is the
better strategy to use in any particular case, based on the
explanations below.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom
of use, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed
to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies
of free software (and charge for this service if you wish);
that you receive source code or can get it if you want it;
that you can change the software and use pieces of it in
new free programs; and that you are informed that you can
do these things....
Some where on your computer is a copy of the complete
document. It can also be found here:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Any who has a problem with the sale of Open Source Software
(OSS) distributed under the protection of the GNU GPL or
LGPL does not under stand the purpose for the license.
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