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Subject: Re: Alert. Someone is SELLING your program.
Author: William
Date: 12/13/2004 17:41
 
> > I think this goes against the GNU Public License.
> 
> Not clearly. Selling GPL software is perfectly legal, as 
> long as you leave the license unspoiled and provide the 
way 
> to download the sources. This is the biggest probleme 
here: 
> no reference to the license in the selling page, nor to 
the 
> original program name. (And I don't want to spoil $4 to 
> check that)
> 
> Ebay Recordable Media policy is not very clear:
> <http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/recordable.html>
> 
> "The following are examples of items that may not be 
listed 
> on eBay:
> (..)
> Compilation of 500 "freeware" and "shareware" programs on 
> one CD-R 
> "
> 
> Nothing is said about GPL programs. I guess the Ebay's 
> strategy is not to offend big players (Adobe, MS), but in 
> the other hand they just don't give a damn about people 
> selling "free" material, even without telling it.
> 

EBay probably considers GPL programs freeware.
 
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