On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 14:01 +0100, Hanno B?ck wrote:
The webshop xt:commerce, which is a fork of the GPLed oscommerce, doesn't provide it's latest version for download, but they still claim it's GPL.
Now, to get the source, you need to pay a "development- and support fee" of 98 eur for twelve months.
Yes, that is okay There is also such a question in the GPL FAQ: http://gnu.mirror.xaranet.de/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CompanyGPLCostsMoney
But when you can get a copy anyhow, you could put it online. That would be legal, whether they like it or not.
But I assume, they mostly charge for their support, and that's okay.
Am Saturday, dem 21. Jan 2006 schrieb Alex Hudson:
Now, if you purchase it and they withhold the proper source, that would be a violation.
Yes, but as far as I can see, it is written in PHP - so it is not binary code anyway.