On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Stephen Wille Padnos <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 $0.02, and IANAL. > > - Steve > > > When you use a M$ product, you don't own the software. You own the rights to use it under the license agreement. Same is true for EMC under the agreements. And if you want to sell it, as described before, you have responsibilities to make the source code available. ... Now it can be argued that you don't 'owe the customer' your enhancements, unless you published them under GPL (of some flavor) also. In that case your enhancements would be proprietary, but you would still have to make the GPLed portion of the code base available to the customers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
