On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:51 PM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote:
> You could charge $1,000 for the modified source but the purchaser would > have the right to give copies away as long as he complied with the license. > Correct. That's likely why nobody has tried it. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf > of John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 12:29 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OS specific commits (was: ... "awk" ...) > > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 11:13 AM Paul Gilmartin < > 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 May 2019 13:58:20 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > > > > >If you've got a C compiler you can build "gawk" yourself. It's already > > >been ported to z/OS and I can see there are z/OS specific commits as > > >recently as a few months ago. > > > > > > > https://secure-web.cisco.com/1uW3-ld0yEsT2HlwUIXZpyCUydLZ008AtCZCHSVSHua5bq_qnuddX_naIBGNKYWD9GCxC01HPDkhCw5cLikz8Lulx-IpJUJZjgUWIAcWJNCXlL21t2w1wthU51k4TvjdSc-T31M2KClean81wToNnQR-juiOYKk3Au7nwolF79q_M66ttyPis_w16Bp5BRBh10FZOY9R3dh14vAzhZR9DfPMCkOD1jGPZZtWS7UOIhk1Xx_DWURdLxaVnc6ZTWw_OaMaWlF7ZJtVETxZGNKt9ZTbhO25UlGG97nVLkvHcR8Wzb_qrgNwqW0YD8o1TaeLiz2A19IftO-gHJA8J-7uDlmTOMjKf6GCirTzhDuIkgohlxXHo02e_o7xIq0ih2Rni/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fredox-os%2Fgawk > > > > > Are the z/OS specific mods to other GNU utilities, mainly by Rocket, > > likewise > > committed to the primary source tree(s), or independent forks? > > > > I understand GPL requires that the source be somehow available. > > > > IIRC, Rocket will supply the source if you request it. It is not, IMO, > easily available because you must ask for it and give Rocket information. > As best as I know, asking for information before supplying source is > allowed by the GPL. That is the "price" for the software. GPL addresses the > right to source (free as in freedom), but does not require that it be > gratis (free as in beer). I just reviewed the license. It does not put any > sort of restriction on the "price" itself. So I guess that I could try > taking some GNU software, modifying it for z/OS, then charge a 1_000_000 > dollars for the modified source. Not that I would. > > > > > > > -- gil > > > > -- > This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough > hunchbacks. > > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
