[wsfii-discuss] batman license (Was: funding supernodes)
Alexander Morlang
alx at dd19.de
Thu Nov 1 01:50:59 UTC 2007
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Daniel Mullen schrieb:
> I stand corrected, the notice now reads:
>
> "This work shall be used for non-military and non-surveillance purposes
> only." - not quite GPL.
in this case, it is a copyright breach of GPL, as stated in
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL as any modification
is not allowed to be called GNU.
>
> Still this leaves it quite unusable when many customers on the
> commercial side, who are not ISPs already, deploy these things for
> remote monitoring of some sort. Even a fish farm in Norway would not be
> allowed to monitor their ponds.
ether it has no licence or the restricion is not valid.
>
> Daniel
>
Alex
>
> At 18:23 31.10.2007, you wrote:
>> On 10/27/07, *Daniel Mullen* < daniel.mullen at broadvox.com
>> <mailto:daniel.mullen at broadvox.com>> wrote:
>>
>> For instance, if we wanted to make a commercial box running BATMAN
>> and use profits from the product to finance projects, we would be
>> running afoul the license terms for use of BATMAN.
>>
>>
>> Hm? Why is that? AFAICS, BATMAN is licensed under the GPL License,
>> which doesn't prohibit any commercial use.
>>
>> -LM
>>
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