?> There are other grounds we may be able to sue on besides GPL, though, such as false advertising! Only a lawyer can help us figure out what is going wrong here. Please look at http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ to see if anyone there can help us
Absolutely, re the advertising. My main concern about this 'product' is that potential purchasers are seriously underinformed of the main fact, namely that what they are buying is something that is already freely available elsewhere. In terms of the GPL, as far as I can see, there has to be a very strong argument that what the guy is doing is outside the very limited and specific scope of what is allowed to be charged for by the GPL. There's no need to fall into the trap of assuming that the GPL is a carte blanche for commercial activities. It clearly isn't or these two clauses would not be so specifically worded. Personally I'd be happy for this guy to make his money if it was clear on his main web page that what he was selling was the repackaging and delivery of a freely-available, open source flight simulator. It seems to be that at the moment, the price that he feels able to charge relies heavily on this fact not being immediately apparent. Mally ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1153 / Virus Database: 424/3251 - Release Date: 11/11/10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
