On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We are using the MontaVista release of gcc. We had a 30 days license from >> MontaVista for their DevRocket development platform. >> >> We had a big surprise when the license expired. Gcc stopped working from >> the command line and displayed a message stating the license time expired. >> >> I had a talk about this with Andrew at the OLS in Ottawa and he said I >> should contact you about this so you know this is happening. > > IANAL, but the short answer is that yes, this is legal. You should be able to > get the source for your binaries via MontaVista, and you're free to rebuild > them without the license checking bits. Of course whether MontaVista > continue to talk to you afterwards is up to them.
This topic seems to come up a lot lately. read : http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html Where it starts : Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible — just enough to cover the cost. Actually we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. Dennis Clarke
