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.
<br><br>Thanks again.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthias Schniedermeyer</b> <<a href="mailto:ms@citd.de">ms@citd.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
DVB WannaB wrote:<br>> I don't know the proper rules and all, but I didn't think it was legal<br>> to sell something that was Open Source or GPL as what VDR is? I don't<br>> know how all of the authors of all the VDR Plugins and Klaus himself
<br>> feel about others making money off of their hard work, and I hate to see<br>> things change. But thought people should be aware there are a couple of<br>> people out there trying to make money off of your work. Someone is
<br>> selling a VDR Live CD, there is a thread about it on <a href="http://dvbn.happysat.org">dvbn.happysat.org</a><br>> <<a href="http://dvbn.happysat.org">http://dvbn.happysat.org</a>> Just wanted to let you guys know. I hope
<br>> that a stop is put to that, cuz I think that is just wrong.<br>><br>> Thanks to all that help make this software what it is.<br><br>The GPL allows that.<br><br>The only obstacle imposed by the GPL is that you have to provide the source
<br>of the Software. When the source is included everything is fine.<br><br>Otherwise the 'vendor' has to provide the source on request.<br>Only if the 'vendor' doesn't provide the source they are in legal violation.<br><br>
So selling GPL-software is perfectly fine as long as you play be the rules.<br><br>If someone doesn't want their GPL-software sold, they have choosen the<br>wrong license. The GPL doesn't allow restriction of selling the software
<br>for profit. You have to use another license if you don't want you software<br>to be sold for profit or want to be asked beforehand.<br><br>But IANAL. This is the digest from several 'license-flamewars' on the Linux<br>
kernel-maillinglist. :-)<br><br><br><br>--<br>Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as<br>bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer<br>wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated,
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