On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:33:24AM +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Vertragsgegenstand == contract?
object of agreement
Hmmm. Sounds like there isn't really an English equivilent then :-)
Make your changes available to us free of charge. GPL states that any GPL program you modify must be licenced at _no_ charge, i.e., for free.
Nope.
Er, yep. Derived works must be licensed as a _whole_ at _no_ charge under the GPL (2b :). The GPL talks of charges at several junctures: each of sections 1, 2, and 3 at least. If you're not the author of software, it's impossible to charge for the software license.
(Note also we're only talking about the license here).
The original authors may impose such restrictions on you because they're not bound by their license(*), but you may not impose these restrictions on others, so if the original authors would require you to do so, you may not redisitribute it at all, ยง7.
Maybe this is their cunning trick :)
Seriously though, the AGB says many times that the rights of the licensee come from the GPL - the AGB is merely supposed to be a clarification of what they understand the GPL to be, I don't know if it would take priority over the GPL in a court (I would think not).
Cheers,
Alex.