Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Re: GCL compliance and Bill Schelter
Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Re: GCL compliance and Bill Schelter
From: Adam Warner
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:51:16 +1200
Hi Camm Maguire,
> 1) I think it is important to restate that one is completely free to
> sell a GPL'ed program commercially. I'd guess that at present, more
> money is made from sales of GPL'ed GNU/Linux (e.g. Redhat, Suse, IBM,
> etc.) than from sales of closed source BSD derivatives.
Great summary (snipped) of what a proprietary fork means. Please however
note that SuSE's distribution contains proprietary portions that limit
distribution unlike Red Hat or Debian GNU/Linux ISO images.
SuSE achieves this by their licence on YaST:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.1/COPYRIGHT.yast
Regards,
Adam