On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 13:54, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
Can Mandrake really do this? http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mnf/license
Sure. And I even tend to appeciate it.
But they do say something that is misleading, and that promotes a common false assumption in their "In short" section:
# In a production environment, such as a commercial company, it is # highly recommended that users purchase a Commercial License Agreement # which applies to all of the product components developed by # MandrakeSoft. The Commercial License Agreement provides extended ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # guaranties for the product such as access to support offerings and # the possibility to build and redistribute a derivative product with ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # commercial licensing. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Software released under the GNU GPL already allows you to build and redistribute a derivative product with a well known commercial license:
the GNU GPL
Rui