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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] licensing question
From: |
Andy Tai |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] licensing question |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:21:18 -0800 |
On 3/16/06, Thomas Lord <address@hidden> wrote:
> I would like to solicit the community's opinion about a new commercial
> service I am considering offering.
> You will pay me $5,000/yr for every CPU on which your installation
> of a GNU Hello binary, compiled from the sources I provide, is
> runnable. For this purpose, multi-core chips count as a single CPU.
>
> I reserve the right to come and inspect your facilities and records,
> twice per year, during business hours, to ensure compliance. If I
> discover that you have made a binary derived from the sources I
> provide runnable on more CPUs than you have paid for, you will owe
> me $5,000 per additional CPU, plus 4% interest compounded monthly --
> because presumptively, that means you are using my support services
> to a greater degree than you've paid for.
>
Do I own money if I put a binary on an additional machine and I do not
want to use your support service on that additional machine no matter
what problems may rise?
And if I give the source to my neighbor so he can run on his machine,
and he does not want to use the support service?
I would guess if the answer to both is no, then there is no conflict
with the GPL.
Of course this is my personal view.
> It therefore follows that you are not free to copy and use my
> version of GNU Hello without additional restriction.
>
> Of course, this contract doesn't override the GPL. Far from it.
> It's just that if you exercise your GPL rights in certain ways
> you will owe me more money.
> -t
>