GNU GPL can't force payment?

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Dec 15 01:32:09 UTC 2010


Cinly Ooi <cinly.ooi at gmail.com> writes:
> "Dag-Erling Smørgrav" <des at des.no> writes:
> > I remember coming across a GPLed netflow probe implementation (around
> > 2004, IIRC) that was sold in source form with a note asking customers to
> > please not exercise their right to redistribute the source code.
> Funny enough, I am sure that is legal under GPL.

Of course it's legal.  I think you missed the point: they did not
*require* their customers to not redistribute the source code, they
politely *asked* them not to.

DES
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