On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 16:36 +0200, Pieter Palmers wrote: > 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.
My understanding (from working at a major Linux distro) is that upon request of the customer you must supply the source. You do not have to have it on the media along with the binaries. If the customer does not request it you don't have to provide it. But I can't see why they would not have the sources on the media anyway. > > > > 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. So my question is, why would someone pay for this? Except by being uninformed. A simple google would show them where to get the bits for free. If there was some way to inform people on ebay of their true options in this case... -Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
