On Jan 27, 2008 1:19 PM, Luis Garrido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. usage of a computer program licensed under the terms of GPL in a > hardware > > product, whether modified or not, is not a distribution of a computer > > program licensed under the terms of GPL, and is thus prohibited by GPL. > > I don't follow you there. Why the exception you mention (selling > computers with Linux preinstalled) is indeed a exception and not the > rule?
It's the only case i can think of right now, that allows to distribute GPLed software inside hardware for profit, because you're making profit out of the hardware not the software. > > > As I see it, where it really matters, LS is Open Source and Free > Software, whatever the FSF, the OSI or anyone else says. No matter how > it is worded, the only freedom the LS authors are trying to keep from > you is the one to make a direct commercial profit of their hard work > without giving back to the community, with seems to me more than fair > enough and quite worthy of openishness and freeishness. Everything i'm saying is that the same thing is already covered by GPL and their exception is in fact a valid intepretation of the GPL. Marek
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