What good is VNC's GPL?

Mike Miller mbmiller "at" taxa.epi.umn.edu
Thu Apr 7 18:34:01 2005


On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Mark Jacobs wrote:

> http://www.planetdns.net
>
> This one looks especially bad - they are receiving rewards and making 
> money out of, what looks like, Wez's work!

Where is the evidence that PlanetDNS has VNC inside?

I'm interested in this issue because I'm not sure how we can demonstrate 
that GPL'd code is inside the product if all we have are binaries.  Does 
anyone know the answer?

By the way, it is perfectly acceptable under the GPL for someone to take 
your GPL'd work and make money from it.  The rule is that they have to 
distribute the source with the product binaries.

Mike