On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:56:10 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:46:53 +0200, Michael Kromer wrote:
I guess you are talking about the upgrade subscription, right? However, as GPL clearly states that you cannot charge anything for the Software itself, you actually pay for the "service around packaging, power, ethernet - simply infrastructure and update service".
I don't believe this is correct. To the best of my knowledge, the GPL doesn't prohibit charging for the software, but it states that the source must be freely available. The GPL doesn't have a lot (if anything) to say about cost, because "free" doesn't mean "as in beer" in the GPL.
Seems I am correct on this. See:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney
(As well as the other questions present)
Jim
The key feature of GPL for this discussion is any buyer of SLES / updates, must have the ability to get the source. And that source must still have the GPL in place, so the recipient can do anything with it that they want. How useable that source is another question. ie. providing it on paper would satisfy the GPL as far as I know. Fortunately, I've not heard of any company trying to abuse the GPL like that. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org