GPL and dsitribution of source code
Jan Wildeboer
jan.wildeboer at gmx.de
Tue May 28 08:26:42 UTC 2002
Thanks to all for sharing your thoughts. It is really appreciated.
I will try to express what are the results for me and ask yous to
correct me when I am wrong. I guess we will write some sort of manifest
for our project to define our projects policy and the way we interpret
and work with the GPL.
* Anyone is allowed to write modules/add-ons for our project and
distribute them for any fee they would like to charge. They may decide
to only send the sources when the fee has been payed. We as the core
developers of this project can only kindly ask anyone to send us the
sources when they want them to be reviewed or integrated in our project.
* If these add-ons/modules are integrated in our work the whole work is
under the GPL with all consequences.
* Noone can limit the rights of distribution when the customer has
received the sources. Anyone that has paid any company a fee for their
add-ons/modules is entitled to distribute this derived work at any rate
they want. When the customer decides to share the sources as a
contribution on our projects site the company that developed the
add-on(module cannot do anything against this.
* We can define that a company that is not willing to share the sources
with the community in the way we do it (for free, immediate release) is
not allowed to announce his product in our forums as we have clearly
written that that will be seen as commercial advertising which is not
allowed in the forums.
I hope I have learned my lesson well :-)
Thanks for your support.
Jan Wildeboer
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