Hmmm, more to think about.
Thanks for it.
- Original Message -
From: "Jónatas Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum"
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Maybe OT, but perhaps relevant
Hi J
One of the CD's was Sword. In effect, these guys are selling Sword for
twenty five bucks. They're doing the same thing with Open Office.
Isn't this against the rules?
No.
Can something be done to stop them?
Tell people about it.
Give CDs away for free.
Tell people where they can download
Jónatas Ferreira wrote:
> ...
> That being said, I think that company may be crossing the line anyway
> because some of the modules used for sword have special licenses due to
> the authorization given by copyright holder that restricts the use of
> those libraries to the sword project and forbi
Hi Jeff,
Here's what I think about this subject.
Being open source software doesn't say a thing about the possibility
of charging for it. That kind of thing is ruled by the license
agreement. (The same procedure as for proprietary software.) As far
as I know, Sword's license is "GPL" with
Jeff Needle wrote:
> Sword is open source software. Theoretically you can't charge for it.
That's not true. You can charge for copies of certain open source
software, especially GPL/LGPL software like Sword. These sort of
arguments have been done to death on slashdot.org ("Where everyone's a
co
Sword is open source software. Theoretically you can't charge for it.
I got hoodwinked with a software company called Think Well (they're on the
web). They offer 4 cd's for the cost of shipping. Buried in the end user
agreement, as far out of sight as they can make it, they indicate that onl
