As much as I find this extremely amusing, I'm pretty sure that this would violate international copyright agreements.
I'm not _completely_ sure off course, but imho all "civilized" countries have a lot of agreements on this.
"Also we think it unfair that only those users with fast connections can download free CD images. "
Right... so apparently they seem to think that these fast connections are free or something ? Downloading "free" CD images is just an extra you get for paying a lot of money for a fast connection.
"Regarding charging for a download and whether this is in conformity with the GNU General Public License, it is. We have consulted with Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation and have been assured that what we are doing is legitimate.
Richard put it this way:
"Free software is about freedom, not price. Free software means that users have certain freedoms, such as the freedom to redistribute and change the software. To charge for a copy is legitimate; this is just as true for downloading as for a CD-ROM." ""
Yadda yadda... IMHO it's also perfectly legal to pay 15$, download the distro and redistribute it for free.
And BTW, i suppose Libranet is based in the USA ? Americans keep forgetting that it's harder to pay for things like this when you're in Europe or something.../me also thinks that there's no chance in hell of the CD's being available in shops in this backward part of the world
Wrong.
If you could compress everything, you could just take any set of data and keep compressing until you have nothing left. This is quite clearly nonsense.
I have the enterprise edition of builder 5 sitting here and the licence text is the same
However, that part of the license applies only to "COMPILED PROGRAMS AND REDISTRIBUTABLES", which in my view means that it doesn't apply to "not-compiled programs" = source code. I don't know about generated stuff though: i'm pretty sure borland wouldn't allow you to release the VCL or something.
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So... if you have that really nice Linux box set up, why wouldn't you just use it then ? :-)
As much as I find this extremely amusing, I'm pretty sure that this would violate international copyright agreements.
I'm not _completely_ sure off course, but imho all "civilized" countries have a lot of agreements on this.
"Also we think it unfair that only those users with fast connections can download free CD images. "
/me also thinks that there's no chance in hell of the CD's being available in shops in this backward part of the world
Right... so apparently they seem to think that these fast connections are free or something ? Downloading "free" CD images is just an extra you get for paying a lot of money for a fast connection.
"Regarding charging for a download and whether this is in conformity with the GNU General Public License, it is. We have consulted with Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation and have been assured that what we are doing is legitimate.
Richard put it this way:
"Free software is about freedom, not price. Free software means that users have certain freedoms, such as the freedom to redistribute and change the software. To charge for a copy is legitimate; this is just as true for downloading as for a CD-ROM." ""
Yadda yadda... IMHO it's also perfectly legal to pay 15$, download the distro and redistribute it for free.
And BTW, i suppose Libranet is based in the USA ? Americans keep forgetting that it's harder to pay for things like this when you're in Europe or something...
Anyway, whatever.
uXs
Wrong.
If you could compress everything, you could just take any set of data and keep compressing until you have nothing left. This is quite clearly nonsense.
Yup, you're wrong
I have the enterprise edition of builder 5 sitting here and the licence text is the same
However, that part of the license applies only to "COMPILED PROGRAMS AND
REDISTRIBUTABLES", which in my view means that it doesn't apply to "not-compiled programs" = source code.
I don't know about generated stuff though: i'm pretty sure borland wouldn't allow you to release the VCL or something.
uXs