From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] licence question
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 22:59:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFSF3XPrLiGnLUNbYbMY9x8hBw3opWKWupJL08scp4_D1atcsA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16433713090.e62E5Cc03.507002@composer.9fans.topicbox.com>
why should it be closed source?
you're gonna seriously put the effort to remove all the traces of source files?
why not just keep the source so people can learn about the software
that they are using?!
students are supposed to learn, no?
On 1/28/22, ibrahim via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote:
> On Friday, 28 January 2022, at 4:23 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
>> None of these prohibit redistribution. Feel free to delete them from
> your copy.
>
> I'm intending to distribute a closed source binary release as a kiosk
> application which will be used as a graphical terminal for students. So
> anything containing GPL code can't be part of the base installment. Users
> can decide to download and install binaries on their computer but the moment
> I distribute a GPL application as an integral part of my system where some
> of the binaries depend on their existence without alternatives my code and
> binaries get infected by GPL.
>
> I already deleted ghostscript and all fonts from 9front to avoid legal
> problems. Xen, mp3dec, lzip weren't used by my app the only surprises were
> diff and patch which I can substitute by not GPL'ed versions.
>
> You are right if I would distribute my kiosk software in binary and source
> form like all plan9 distributions do. Then I would have fulfilled the
> necessities of GPL regarding redistribution. But the problem of "work based
> upon", "word depends on" would perhaps remain for some of the tools used by
> plan9. In common you are right but not when someone makes a binary
> distribution ...
>
> Thanks
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2022-01-27 22:43 ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-27 22:48 ` hiro
2022-01-27 23:33 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-28 0:05 ` hiro
2022-01-28 0:42 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-28 0:46 ` ori
2022-01-28 1:14 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-28 3:23 ` Kurt H Maier via 9fans
2022-01-28 12:01 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-28 21:59 ` hiro [this message]
2022-01-29 13:03 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-29 13:24 ` hiro
2022-01-29 14:08 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-29 14:59 ` sirjofri
2022-01-29 18:11 ` Grant Defayette
2022-01-29 19:00 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-29 20:43 ` hiro
2022-01-29 21:32 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-29 21:42 ` hiro
2022-01-29 22:23 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-29 23:14 ` sirjofri
2022-01-29 23:27 ` hiro
2022-01-29 23:36 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-30 0:08 ` hiro
2022-01-30 1:45 ` ron minnich
2022-01-30 2:18 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-30 21:00 ` ron minnich
2022-02-01 15:08 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-02-01 17:06 ` Dan Cross
2022-01-29 22:14 ` Bakul Shah
2022-01-29 22:40 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-02-04 15:30 ` Kent R. Spillner
2022-02-04 16:17 ` Grant Defayette
2022-02-04 16:29 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-02-04 21:12 ` sirjofri
2022-02-04 17:48 ` Kurt H Maier via 9fans
2022-02-05 0:08 ` Frank D. Engel, Jr.
2022-02-05 16:47 ` hiro
2022-01-29 14:26 ` David Leimbach via 9fans
2022-02-01 14:12 ` Dan Cross
2022-02-01 22:47 ` hiro
2022-02-02 13:22 ` Wes Kussmaul
2022-02-02 16:25 ` ori
2022-02-02 18:22 ` ron minnich
2022-02-02 19:00 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-29 16:15 ` Wes Kussmaul
2022-01-29 16:56 ` Bakul Shah
2022-01-29 17:17 ` ori
2022-01-29 18:14 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-29 18:58 ` cinap_lenrek
2022-01-29 19:23 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-29 20:48 ` hiro
2022-01-29 21:18 ` Steve Simon
2022-01-29 21:34 ` hiro
2022-01-29 21:43 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-29 22:44 ` hiro
2022-01-29 23:26 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-30 7:55 ` tlaronde
2022-01-30 13:44 ` ibrahim via 9fans
2022-01-30 13:56 ` tlaronde
2022-01-28 3:14 ` Lucio De Re
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