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[Seth Cohn]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Steve Bostedor wrote:

>   I don't want to be too hard on anyone for trying to make money to feed
> their families, but I just wish people would do it in a way that doesn't
> infringe on someone elses product like that.

Steve, the GPL not only allows doing this, it ENCOURAGES it.... Red Hat,
and every other Linux vendor does this.... AT&T doesn't sell VNC, but they
also don't provide support (except for the wonderful list we have here)
Linus and company write the Linux kernel, but they don't sell it either.

If these guys are funding development of VNC, more power to them.  Maybe
some of the many ideas we've floated on this list will get developed cause
they will have the time (and money) to do it.

>  I didn't even include the
> vncviewer.exe in my package because I didn't feel that it was right to pack
> someone elses product with mine. 

You can, so go for it.  You just have to make sure that you include the
sources then, or provide ftp access to them for 3 years.  Pointing to the
AT&T is ok, but they must provide the source for the version you
distribute....

VNC isn't 'someone else's product' it's GPLed now.  AT&T, as 'author'
could release a non-GPL version themselves, if and only if they got
permission from every contributor to the code.  If anyone who ever had a
patch accepted in the sources said 'no, it's gotta stay GPL' they couldn't
do anything about it.
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