Neil Baylis wrote: > snip... > > Remember you can't sell EMC, but you can sell your services, your > >> documentation >> and your electrical/electronic and mechanical products. >> > Why can't you sell EMC? > Well, I was going to respond with something like "because the GPL V2 says you can't". Turns out I was wrong :)
You are allowed to sell Free software in binary form. However, you must make the source code available at no cost, or at a price which covers "reasonable distribution costs". Here's a FAQ on selling free software: <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html> Now, after selling someone your Gee-Whiz-Bang-super-custom EMC binary, you may not prevent them from distributing it to all their friends, putting it on their website for anyone to freely download, etc. They can do the same thing with the free (or almost free) source code you're required to offer them. You don't have to support anyone who didn't pay you, but you can't prevent them from copying, using, or distributing it. My $0.02, and IANAL. - Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
