[Bf-committers] Re: Some one tried to sale Blender on eBay

[Martin Poirier]

--- GSR - FR <famrom at infernal-iceberg.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> bart at neeneenee.de (2005-02-08 at 2131.02 +0100):
> > some one tried to sale Blender on eBay, don't know
> if this is legal
> > because it is under GPL:
> 
> Under GPL you can sell binaries, and at any price
> the other part
> accepts to pay. You just have to follow GPL, which
> means you have to
> provide source to the buyer, or offer it at the
> processing cost of
> sending it (mastering CD, stamps, that things, not
> asking thounsands
> for it, the unrestricted price is the binaries, not
> the source).
> 
> The problems can arrise if he sells things that are
> not under GPL in
> that CD. Or just breaks the rules of the GPL, like
> no source and no
> offer for it, or binaries from modified source and
> provide unmodified
> one. Some coders get angry (with reason) if they get
> bug reports from
> modified sources. Or use trademarked names,
> registered logos and so
> on.
> 
> So the details is what counts, GPL is not "anti sell
> software", all
> the contrary, FSF got money to keep running doing
> it.

As I see it, it's not so much the fact that he's
selling Blender but that he's using an image from
blender3d.org to promote it. Said image is most likely
protected.
Same for that luxuriosity scam.

In any case, this is not relevent to bf-committers
(IMHO) and is a discussion better more suited for the
forums.

Martin

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