[Asterisk-Users] RE: Ebay listing selling Asterisk @ Home and AMPfor over 1000 dollars

[Neal Walton]

Hi,
The GPL is about _distributing code_.  If someone takes some hardware and 
installs GPL code and lists the item on ebay, that is not the same as 
_distributing code_.  If someone bids on the item, and the hardware 
containing the code is shipped to that person, then the code was 
distributed and the GPL notice must be sent with the code.  I don't think 
there is any obligation to distribute the GPL notice _in advance_ of 
distributing the actual GPL code.  The notice and the code can be 
distributed together at the same time.  The source code must be provided on 
request, but doesn't have to be shipped with the binaries.
Regards,
Neal



-----Original Message-----
From:	Robert Webb [SMTP:asterisk at ropeguru.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:35 PM
To:	Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject:	Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Ebay listing selling Asterisk 
@	Home	and	AMPfor over 1000 dollars


On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:04:26 -0400
  David Brodbeck <DavidB at mail.interclean.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jean-Michel Hiver [mailto:jhiver at ykoz.net]
>
>> I don't think the GPL obliges you to "give credit" to
>> anybody.
>
> In fact, I think that's a key difference between the GPL
>and the BSD
> license.

Actually, the GPL does require credit to be given, at
least in the sense that the source code is modified and
not necessarily in the advertisement as I understand it.

Please take a look at the Developers archive as there is
an ongoing discussion about another distro that is for
Windows that is also dealing with the GPL issue. I am not
completely sure that this falls under the exact same
category, but I believe it is really close. Just in this
case it would probably deal more with AMP than Asterisk
directly.

But not having this sellers code, I connot confirm nor
deny that this is the case.

Can anyone chime in on whether or not this seller must
provide the source code for what he is selling??
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