RE: eBoxit

["Calum Morrell" <calum@xxxxxxx>]

Ian, I haven't looked at their software so this is a generic answer.

It's actually very easy to charge for a GPL product [based on one time fee = or per user]. All you need to do is have a single piece of proprietory code=
or application and you make the charge for that. That would normally be the= custom interface that makes it easier to use than a bash shell and vi :-)<= BR>
And yes source code must be made available for any gpl'ed packages, but obv= iously not for the proprietory stuff. It is important to note however, that=
the code does not need to be released with the install disks, or even made = available for download from their site ... it simply has to be *available*.=
They can quite happily insist you contact them in writing with a small fee = for copying and distributions of up to =A310 to =A315.

Does any of that answer your question, or even make sense? ;-)

On 2 Apr 2002 at 18:01, Ian Lowe wrote:

> er...
>
> If it's mandrake based, how can they place a charge per user on it? > Surely they have to distrib the source code too?
>
> and the GPL should mean that it's free to re-distribute?
>
> Ian.
>

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