On 8/23/2011 4:18 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 16:50, RA Brown<[email protected]> wrote:
They also have to have at least as link to the source so that anyone can
download it. I do not understand Norwegian so I can not tell how close they
are crossing the line.
What is amazing is that people continue to do these kind of things
without knowing that someone, someday, is going to find out and report
back to the developers....
FC
I used Google translate to see the page in English. I found no reference
to authorship on the page I looked at. There also is no link to the
source apparent, but I had to go looking for the the source for OO.o and
LO. All that is required (I think I have this right) that the source
code be made available at a cost no greater than actual cost of
providing it. For binaries, you can charge what the market will bear.
Not the GPL's words, but close.
As I recall, the FSF charged a chunk of money (perhaps a couple
hundred?) in the mid 80s for tapes of Emacs and Gnu C sources. That was
a hell of a lot of money back then.
My point is: It is not illegal to sell binaries if the source is made
available, and the authors are acknowledged. Is either of these being done?
--David Teague
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