Possible GPL violation by Armorware inc

[John]

I suppose the point I was trying to make is that this is a very very 
commercial world and I am not sure that the gpl offers authors sufficient 
protection from it. As to making the source available and acknowledgement I'm 
not sure that it achieves anything. How many windoze users for instance are 
interested in the source? They are only interested in the package. The same 
thing will happen with Linux as the user base grows. From what I hear it is 
growing daily. So why should some individuals profit on the hard work of 
others? I'm not suggesting that the authors should be payed but that maybe 
some organisation aught to be funded in some way who's sole aim is to look 
after their interests.
Regards
John

On Saturday 10 December 2005 13:40, Christian Mueller wrote:
> Am Samstag, 10. Dezember 2005 13:35 schrieb John:
> > It's a great pity that the gpl doesn't limit selling.
>
> [...]
>
> > Does the add on code represent reasonable value for money?
> > If not then the gpl holders aught to be able to stop
> > them from both using and selling it or
> > maybe even charge them for using it.
>
> I disagree.  If someone finds a customer who is willing
> to pay there's nothing wrong.  It's part of the freedom
> that Open Source software / Free software offers (of course
> they still have to comply with the license and offer the
> source in some way that's acceptable according to the license).
>
> The good and important thing here is that they cannot restrict
> redistribution (and even less that of the code they've taken)
> so there's no lock-in, and if you feel that the price is
> too high you will certainly find someone who offers
> you the GPL software at a reasonable price or for free.
>
> As you said, in order to find customers they would have
> to add value by providing additional tools, polish,
> marketing, ... to justify the price.
> By looking at what armorware offers I doubt they will
> find too many people who are willing to pay that high
> a price.  So IMHO this thread is a discussion about
> something that's a non-issue in practice.
>
> The only real question is whether they comply with
> the involved licenses:  Offer the source (both, of what they've taken
> and their modifications thereof) and keep copyright notices intact.
> That I cannot say but we've not seen a proof that they don't.
>
>
> Christian.
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