Marco Milanesi wrote: >> Hydrogen, gimp, audacity, 7Zip, open office... >> http://stores.ebay.it/Prints-of-the-Ages >> >> Please note the Hydrogen logo on Audacity!! aaargggh :-| >> http://cgi.ebay.it/AUDACITY-Sound-Editing-Recording-Software_W0QQitemZ130131897165QQihZ003QQcategoryZ80319QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem >> >> Is all that legal? What can I do to stop these sellers? > > I'm no license expert, but IIRC the GPL says that if a software is > released to the public (which is the case), the reseller must put a link > to the download site or information on how to download it. Basically what the GPL says is that you can redistribute the software anyway you want to, provided that you also provide the source code.
AFAIK It's also not enough to provide a link to the source code on the net. If you redistribute it in binary form, you have to redistribute the source code. > > for reselling it, I think it's ok (see redhat etc or other commercial distro) > > though reselling without repackaging or putting a service around it it's > pure free riding imho This definitely is freeriding, since there is hardly any added value, and there's nothing returning to the OSS community. Which is different in the case of e.g. RedHat. I would certainly feel screwed should something like this happen with my software. Greets, Pieter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
