Re: Violation of licensing
| From: | Hannes Magnusson | Date: | Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:28:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Violation of licensing | ||
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Chris <chris0728xx@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was looking for a PHP distribution for my Netgear ReadyNAS, and found it at
> ReadyNASXtras.com. However, they are requiring a fee to download it.
>
> This has always been confusing to me, but I thought OpenSource software couldn't be
> repackaged and sold by another party.
>
> Is what ReadyNASXtras is doing a violation of your license?
No, it is legal - although not something I have seen before.
If they have made any modifications to the source they are however not
allowed to call it PHP.
-Hannes