dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (10/27/89)
Apparently the UUCico code still has a lot of GNU code in it,
which means nobody can legally *sell* it.
Thus, since it is as such, and since I want to distribute Getty
with my fixed UUCico, Getty will be made Freeware. I intend to post
the UUCico / Getty to the moderator in a couple days... as soon as
it gets tested a little more.
By the way, I've rewritten much of UUCico... completely rewrote
the G protocol (which is an aweful protocol by the way :-( Yich).
The implementation was even worse (it was the original GNU code).
-Mattpeter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) (10/28/89)
In article <8910262315.AA23551@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: > Apparently the UUCico code still has a lot of GNU code in it, > which means nobody can legally *sell* it. > Thus, since it is as such, and since I want to distribute Getty > with my fixed UUCico, Getty will be made Freeware. I dislike the GNU license as much as anyone, but I must point out that you may distribute FSFware with commercial software so long as you make the source to the FSFware available and the commercial software is not bound with the FSFware. So you CAN sell Getty and simultaneously distribute UUCICO with it. Much as I'd prefer to get it free. -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com 'U` ``Back off dude! I'm a topologist!'' -- Andrew Molitor <amolitor@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) (10/28/89)
In article <8910262315.AA23551@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
< Apparently the UUCico code still has a lot of GNU code in it,
< which means nobody can legally *sell* it.
Matt, I'm surprised at you. The GNU Public License isn't any denser
than most technical documentation, and I know you can deal with the
latter.
The GPL doesn't prevent you from legally selling their code. It does
say that if you distribute it (no matter how, or what you charge for
it), you can't prevent those who have a copy from redistributing it,
and you have to be willing to make source available to everyone who
got it from you (directly or indirectly; distributing source means you
don't have to deal with this at all).
In other words, it doesn't turn into a real commercial product very
well. Doing it as shareware should work just fine.
< Thus, since it is as such, and since I want to distribute Getty
< with my fixed UUCico, Getty will be made Freeware.
Unless your Getty has code covered by the GPL in it, bundling it with
the UUCico doesn't extend the GPL to cover it. This is stated
explicitly in the GPL.
< By the way, I've rewritten much of UUCico... completely rewrote
< the G protocol (which is an aweful protocol by the way :-( Yich).
To true.
< The implementation was even worse (it was the original GNU code).
Actually, it was originally UUPC, which was PD.
<mike
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