On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 15:11 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > Actually it is commercial vs GPL. [...] > > The GPL specifically allows commercial redistribution. The > > only restriction it contains is that the cost for a copy of > > the source code cannot exceed the cost of the binaries sold. > > t signed. > > > Well having nothing else to do this morning I read the GPL license > agreement. You can sell the binary code to someone.t that person now has > equivalent rights to that code to those that you have. Therefore he can > sell it also in competition with you if he wants. > > He , however, can not include it in proprietary code that he has > exclusive rights to sell. Which makes an interesting paradox for the end users. Each one can do his own work to integrate GPL code and proprietary code obtained separately to create his own derived work, but each is prohibited by the GPL from sharing that work with others, even if those other already have their own copy of the proprietary part. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
