[Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

[Danny William Adair]

Hi all!

Now Nils and Oleg are giving me the creeps.
Is it not possible to take a few GPLed Zope products, add your own effort of
configuring, integrating, building, (re-)designing, and even documenting the
outcome of your efforts and - ___sell___ this? Maybe not only to _one_
customer, but burn a CD and sell it to _a couple_ of customers?

In my opinion (yes, opinion has nothing to do with lawyers and courts ;-)),
in this case you wouldn't be selling other people's products, no you would
have created something new, which ___you___ can put a copyright on. It's a
compilation, and with enough value-adding effort put in to this compilation,
none of the respective GPL authors could claim to be co-author of your
production. Since you don't want to (only) sell your service of deploying,
but also your new product. (product in its conventional meaning, I would
call a Zope product a "module" in this respect)

Well I might just be dreaming...
Maybe someone can wake me up if I am. tia

Danny


-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]Im Auftrag von Oleg
Broytmann
Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. September 2000 18:08
An: Nils Kassube
Cc: zope@zope.org
Betreff: Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill


On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Nils Kassube wrote:
> phd@phd.russ.ru (Oleg Broytmann) wrote:
>
> >    No, you are not forced to publish anything. GPL "virus" applied only
if
> > you want to *distribute* combined (your code + my GPL'd code).
>
> Like in "distributing to clients"? So that I have to publish
> source code to the whole world (not only clients) then?

   I am not a lawyer, and certainly not authorized to interpret the
License.

   But as one of the people who respect your freedom, I will do all my best
to protect your freedom (in the way that do not limit my freedom). You are
free to use my code, to read it and patch it, to send me your patches or to
fork the code. AND FINALLY YOUR ARE FREE TO *ignore* MY CODE!

   But please, please! If you respect my freedom - do not ask me to change
the license. I love GPL and found it pretty suitable for my needs.

Oleg.
----
     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd@phd.pp.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.


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