Re: [smartmontools-support] [smartmontools-devel] Charging for GUI to smartmontools

[Matthew B. <lib...@su...>]

Thank you for this information. It helps me a lot with my concerns. I =20=

had some people question me about this answer, and I wasn't quite =20
sure how to respond. This will help me out greatly. Thanks again.


On Apr 05, 2007, at 12:31 , Stanislav Brabec wrote:

> Bruce Allen wrote:
>> Hey Matthew,
>>
>> Thanks for sending this.  Some brief comments:
>>
>> (1) I think it's OK to charge as you are doing.  I'm copying the
>> Developers list since there are other people there who know more =20
>> than me
>> about GPL.
>
> It's OK in any case to charge even for stand-alone GPL binary.
>
>> (2) I suggest that on your main page you mention that the source =20
>> is GPL.
>> I think you may need to provide the source code from your web =20
>> page, not
>> just included with the program, but I am not sure about this.
>
> No, you don't need to put it on web, source + binary on medium is OK.
> Even only written offer to send source code (valid for 3 years) is OK.
>
>> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Matthew Butch wrote:
>
>>> If I am reading the GPL correctly, I am allowed to charge for it, as
>>> long as I include the source code with it. I am including the source
>>> code in the disk image, and I make it clear that my app is based on
>>> smartmontools. I have not modified smartmontools, I am just using it
>>> in my GUI. I wanted to check to see what the list thought.
>
> As long as you application does not link with smartmontools, it's OK.
> If you only parse output of smarctl and don't link with its code, any
> license for GUI is allowed.
>
> --=20
> Best Regards / S pozdravem,
>
> Stanislav Brabec
> software developer
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