28 Jan
2008
28 Jan
'08
10:28 a.m.
On Jan 28, 2008 11:40 AM, Frank Barknecht <fbar(a)footils.org> wrote:
Hallo,
Marek hat gesagt: // Marek wrote:
Here's one definition of distribute:To divide among several or many;
to deal out; to
apportion; to allot.
Let' have an example:
If i take ardour, throw out everything GUI related plus a couple of
other things, make some modifications in order to
make it work with a custom front panel with a couple of hardware
buttons, a couple of hardware sliders and a lcd panel in order to
build a 16 track rack based recorder,
and make the sources free, would call this distributing ardour?
2. The FedEx example should demonstrate why the
FSF chose
"distributing for fee". Everytime someone restricts others to download
free software in order to charge for it, he makes the software a
little bit less free. (Doesn't matter if you can get it somewhere
else, some people dont even know for example). So in order to keep
your software free from legal point of view, you say that the person
in question is charging for the physical act of transferring a copy
not for the software itself. In fact he is indeed doing so, he takes
the software from someone and offers to someone else for a fee, he
distributes.
How do you sell software without distributing a copy of it as well? As the GPL doesn't say a
single word about how the fee for distribution should be calculated,
in fact it is up to the distributor to specify the price. The GPL
doesn't restrict the fee at all.
Who said something else?
Marek