I deal with a company that does this, may be the one referred to here, not sure until a name is given, however in the "Support, Warranty and Licence" information is this statement:
........Communications Server contains hundreds of individual software components, such as linux Redhat and e-smith server, each of which was written individually and copyrighted individually. All this software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License which allows you to copy, distribute or modify the software subject to GNU General Public License. All the individual software components, taken together constitute the "Software Programs". -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Grima Sent: Tue, 26. July 2005 7:32 PM To: Rev Simon Rumble Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Company rebranding FOSS and selling it Thanks, Before this gets into a debate about the GPL I want to just clarify that SMEserver is distributed under the GPL see; http://www.contribs.org/contribs/bobk/SME_Manual/chpt-01.2.html and is actually in the web interface, so if that is removed we have a problem. also this site puts it plain and simple about the gpl. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-violation.html I am not saying the companies name right now but will be tomorrow.. I just want to ring and hear him say he made the software first person as I have only heard of them saying it via third person. thanks On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 10:24 +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > On 26/7/2005, "Jeff Grima" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I am doing some further investigation into this, > > > >What are the things to look for? > > > >So far I am looking for; > >The removal of copyright/copyleft text > > This is the most serious. > > >Changes to the code and selling it without providing source > > No, redistributing ANY GPL code, including code modified by them, > without making the source available (not necessarily "providing" it). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html _____ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed 146 Spam messages and set aside 211 Later for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! www.ellaforspam.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
