Thanks for the explanation, and not trying to start a license flaming war, it just bothered me more than anything that someone is making a buck off of everyone else's hard work. But I guess if it is legal, what can you do. If people are stupid enough to buy it, then I guess it is on them. Thanks again. On 1/31/06, Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > DVB WannaB wrote: > > I don't know the proper rules and all, but I didn't think it was legal > > to sell something that was Open Source or GPL as what VDR is? I don't > > know how all of the authors of all the VDR Plugins and Klaus himself > > feel about others making money off of their hard work, and I hate to see > > things change. But thought people should be aware there are a couple of > > people out there trying to make money off of your work. Someone is > > selling a VDR Live CD, there is a thread about it on dvbn.happysat.org > > <http://dvbn.happysat.org> Just wanted to let you guys know. I hope > > that a stop is put to that, cuz I think that is just wrong. > > > > Thanks to all that help make this software what it is. > > The GPL allows that. > > The only obstacle imposed by the GPL is that you have to provide the > source > of the Software. When the source is included everything is fine. > > Otherwise the 'vendor' has to provide the source on request. > Only if the 'vendor' doesn't provide the source they are in legal > violation. > > So selling GPL-software is perfectly fine as long as you play be the > rules. > > If someone doesn't want their GPL-software sold, they have choosen the > wrong license. The GPL doesn't allow restriction of selling the software > for profit. You have to use another license if you don't want you software > to be sold for profit or want to be asked beforehand. > > But IANAL. This is the digest from several 'license-flamewars' on the > Linux > kernel-maillinglist. :-) > > > > -- > Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as > bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer > wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, > cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. > > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20060131/04dda70f/attachment.htm
