Re: License issue?
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I have been reading the dvd+rw-tools FAQ and I have found this in there: === Version 5.6 adds support for Solaris 2.x [commercial licensing terms for distribution on Solaris are to be settled with Inserve Technology]. === As the program claims to use the GPL, such note would not be legal and commercial use cannot be limited to a single company. You may be right in Europe, in the USA if I hold the copyright I may grant several non-exclusive licenses under different terms. It's not even unusual. With commercial software I may sell a right to use quantity one to an end user, a site or company license to a large organization, and a right to duplicate and resell to another (if I trust them to pay royalties). And I might grant a free right to use to a charity if I was a nice person. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
Re: License issue?
Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri 19 Aug 2005 00:32:53 NZST +1200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > As the program claims to use the GPL, such note would not be legal > > and commercial use cannot be limited to a single company. > > > Once you put some code under a OSI compliant license, you cannot > > give someone else exclusive rights anymore. > > How very interesting. I remember a certain Mr Schilling trying to > restrict the rights to cdrecord away from the GPL for a certain named > company. Trying to troll again? As you are on this list for a long time, I would expect that you know that a company was named only because this company did violate the GPL. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: License issue?
Greg Wooledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:41:20PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Once you put some code under a OSI compliant license, you cannot > > give someone else exclusive rights anymore. > > That is not correct. > > The copyright holder can give the code to Microsoft and say, "Here, use > this in the next version of Windows any way you like." Microsoft will > *not* be under the obligations of the GPL. Why would someone need such a special license? Only in order to make hidden changes. If there was any hope to get customers that are interested in hidden changes, I would expect a different text. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: License issue?
On Fri 19 Aug 2005 00:32:53 NZST +1200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > As the program claims to use the GPL, such note would not be legal > and commercial use cannot be limited to a single company. > Once you put some code under a OSI compliant license, you cannot > give someone else exclusive rights anymore. How very interesting. I remember a certain Mr Schilling trying to restrict the rights to cdrecord away from the GPL for a certain named company. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: License issue?
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:41:20PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Once you put some code under a OSI compliant license, you cannot > give someone else exclusive rights anymore. That is not correct. The copyright holder can give the code to Microsoft and say, "Here, use this in the next version of Windows any way you like." Microsoft will *not* be under the obligations of the GPL. However, if Microsoft takes the GPL-licensed version of the software and incorporates it into Windows, then they *would* have to comply with the terms of the GPL. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: License issue?
Greg Wooledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:43:59PM +0100, Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote: > > === > > Version 5.6 adds support for Solaris 2.x [commercial licensing terms > > for distribution on Solaris are to be settled with Inserve > > Technology]. > > === > > > > I am wondering how is it possible to this be compatible with the GPL > > license (which is the only license I have found on > > dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8/LICENSE file). > > The person who writes the software holds the copyright on it. > The copyright holder may release the software to various people or > organizations under as many licenses as he likes. True but irelevent: The source has already been published under GPL that allows a commercial distribution of derived binaries if you include source. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
