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On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 07:21, Brad Jensen wrote: > > This is talking about the *source*. Charge what you like for > binary > > distribution, as long as you make the code available to those > who have > > the binaries. How do you think the likes of RedHat can charge > $60 for > > their current Linux distribution? Charge for support, value > added > > features, etc. Or do things the SuSE way and include some > non-GPL > > installer/admin software that directs the proceedings and > prevents > > anyone making their own SuSE based distro. > > That's an interesting way of looking at it. We've been working on > a modified version of VNC, to get thru firewalls and do a couple > of other things. We aren't selling it, because the way we read the > license all we can do is charge for support. Hi Brad Licenses are *interesting* things :) There's still a lot of confusion on what you can and can't do with GPL software. In particular the tricky aspect of what combining GPL with non-GPL is valid. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation for the official answer to this. Can you offer a better install mechanism or easier configuration of VNC[1] to add value to your version? I'm interested in knowing how this applies to OS/400 programming, wrt RPG, CL and the like. My understanding (std disclaimer IANAL[2]) is that a standard command or call from a GPL to non-GPL (say IBM or third party) or vice versa is okay, but GPL <--> non-GPL bound or procedure calls would not be. I guess service programs would be fine under the LGPL, as they seem analogous to the *nix library function. Regards, Martin [1] http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ - a brilliant bit of software if you've not come across it yet. Get remote acces to Windows desktops or turn a *nix box into a GUI terminal server for your Windows clients. We use it on a number of machine at work [2] I am not a lawyer -- martin@dbg400.net jamaro@firstlinux.net http://www.dbg400.net /"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open \ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X [this space for hire] ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \
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