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- From: tthorn@daimi.aau.dk (Tommy Thorn)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Who can use SLS..NOT!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.222229.17425@daimi.aau.dk>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 22:22:29 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.160457.12462@sol.UVic.CA>
- Sender: news@daimi.aau.dk
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Lines: 34
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- pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
-
- >People are starting to ask if SLS can be used for various and
- >sundry purposes, such as redistribution or selling. Since I
- >didn't state so in the README, let me clear the air here. Anybody
- >can use SLS for anything they want (except restricting others
- >of course). In short, the same rules that apply to the Linux
- >kernel, apply to SLS. If you wish to sell it for $5,000.00
- >(support extra) and can find someone to buy it, you are free
- >to do so. If you wish to siphon it through to Bullitin (sp?)
- >boards or Fidonet, by all means. After all, SLS is designed
- >to save people the agonizing task of collecting and integrating
- >a system themselves. And it is hoped it will catapult it
- >to greater availability.
-
- >Peter
-
- Your are omitting one very important fact here. You are *required*
- to make sources available on demand for at least three years for
- a distribution fee, *and* state this fact *clearly*.
-
- While make life easier for many is a Good Thing (tm), it's *no* excuse
- for taking away peoples basic right. This is not meant as a flame, but
- take into account that people who has difficulites get binaries from
- FTP sites, has exactly the same problems with source.
-
- The message is: *STOP THESE BINARY-ONLY RELEASES*!! It's ok to make
- a complete packages, and to distribute binaries and sources seperate, but
- there *must* be a 1-1 corespondence. Who are you to break GPL?
-
- --
- /Tommy Thorn, another LPF member. Terminate software patents.
- Join The League for Programming Freedom, mail league@prep.ai.mit.edu.
- XT350 '88 - You either make dust, or you eat it.
-