Joerg Mayer schrieb: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:19:43PM -0800, Ruben Junkie wrote: > >> So I was lurking around eBay and found that seller >> redlinedit<http://myworld.ebay.com/redlinedit/>is selling copies of >> wireshark.... which is totally wrong ... this people >> who think that they can take advantage of free distributed software must be >> stopped ... >> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/World-Leading-Internet-Network-Analyzer-Sniffer_W0QQitemZ260211008887QQihZ016QQcategoryZ3806QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem >> >> also I dugged the story for more media coverage .. >> >> http://digg.com/linux_unix/Wireshark_sold_on_eBay_Bad_seller_BAD >> > > AFAIKT, the offer is perfectly legal. In return, I could legally sell > you gcc or other Free Software. Free in Free Software means freedom of > speech, not free as in free beer. The GPL does not forbid to sell this > software, nor do we. The only thing that the seller could do to make > this sale illegal would be to violate the GPL by lets say remove the > copyright/license information and the like or by refusing to provide > the wireshark source on request of a buyer. But unless (s)he does this, > they are perfectly ok. > Hey, someone paid around 12 Euros for a wireless extension cord (aka > air), so why not sell Wireshark? If someone buys wireshark who would > otherwise not have found and used Wireshark: Great! > > You are perfectly right - as long as the terms of the GPL are fulfilled, this is ok for me!
However, you sometimes wonder how strange the world will get from here - seen from today where it's already very strange ;-) But it seems to be the business model of this seller, on related auctions there's also audacity, americas army, (blender?) ... all at least freeware! Regards, ULFL P.S: He's not alone: http://cgi.ebay.com/Advanced-Internet-Sniffer-Network-Analyzer-WEP_W0QQitemZ250213230167QQihZ015QQcategoryZ68258QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
