Hmmm, more to think about.
Thanks for it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jónatas Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Maybe OT, but perhaps relevant
Hi Jeff,
Here's what I think about this subject.
Being open source software doesn't say a thing about the possibility of
charging for it. That kind of thing is ruled by the license agreement.
(The same procedure as for proprietary software.) As far as I know,
Sword's license is "GPL" with some libraries in "Lesser GPL". These
licenses are designed to allow you to do whatever you want, except
transforming open source projects into proprietary software. So you
always have to provide the source code and allow everyone the same
license you were given. You can charge for it, if you want. Many
companies charge for Linux, for instance, of for OpenOffice. This is
legal.
That being said, I think that company may be crossing the line anyway
because some of the modules used for sword have special licenses due to
the authorization given by copyright holder that restricts the use of
those libraries to the sword project and forbids anyone from charging for
those libraries. If they are doing so, then crosswire should contact them
and ask them to remove such libraries from their CDs. If some of the
companies that are allowing the use of their work comes to the knowledge
of this practice, they may require the removal of the libraries from
crosswire too. And this would be a huge problem.
Greetings,
Jónatas
Em 2006/05/27, às 05:38, Jeff Needle escreveu:
Sword is open source software. Theoretically you can't charge for it.
I got hoodwinked with a software company called Think Well (they're on
the web). They offer 4 cd's for the cost of shipping. Buried in the
end user agreement, as far out of sight as they can make it, they
indicate that only two of the CD's are really free. If you don't return
the other two in 30 days, they ding you twenty five bucks for each CD!
One of the CD's was Sword. In effect, these guys are selling Sword for
twenty five bucks. They're doing the same thing with Open Office.
Isn't this against the rules? Can something be done to stop them?
Thanks.
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