What good is VNC's GPL?

Mike Miller mbmiller "at" taxa.epi.umn.edu
Thu Apr 7 19:39:03 2005


On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Jim Brown wrote:

>> Where is the evidence that PlanetDNS has VNC inside?
>
> http://www.planetdns.net/premstd/v2.0/onlinehelp/dialogs/mshvnc_copyright_notice.html

Great.  Thanks.

Next question:  Are they violating the GPL?  Has anyone bought the product 
and found that it is distributed without source?

It isn't a violation of the GPL to sell VNC binaries.  Stallman used to 
sell emacs on tape for $150 about 20 years ago.

Mike