Mike Miller said: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Brian K. White wrote: > > >> Saying that they will only deal with realvnc and that they are not >> obligated to honor the license of public code they are using until >> realvnc approaches them or responds to their approaches is NOT >> acceptable unless they are not in fact using anything that is gpl'd. If >> they are using something that is gpl'd then it doesn't matter that the >> original author organization (realvnc) happens to still be in >> existence, the code being used is already gpl and is no longer owned by >> realvnc and anyone using it is obligated to adhere to it's license >> simple as that. > > > I have questions about how the GPL works. RealVNC has developed an > Enterprise edition that is not being distributed under the GPL. I assume > that the Enterprise edition contains GPL code from the old RealVNC. I also > believe that this is OK because the RealVNC team owns the copyright on the > GPL code and they are allowed to use it in non-GPL products. Am I > right?
Yes. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCDeveloperViolate > If I am right about that, is RealVNC not also allowed to let other > companies buy the right to use GPL'd code to create non-GPL software? Yes. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ReleaseUnderGPLAndNF > If > so, then isn't it OK for a suspected GPL violator to ignore queries from > anyone other than the copyright owner? Yes. The copyright owner is the only person that has a legal right to enforce the GPL. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhoHasThePower -- William Hooper _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
