Re: crazy copyrights
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 03:25:35PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
This look like the controversial points:
> to effectively monitor networks. ntop belongs to the author
> (Luca Deri <deri@unipi.it>) who allow you to use it according to the
> licence below (GPL2).
Here the author declares you must follow the GPL.
> What you CANNOT do with ntop is:
> - charge a fee for using ntop except for the physical act of
> transferring a copy.
This sentence smells bad to me: "transferring a copy" is not "using",
is it? so the "except..." wording doesn't make sense.
> In other words you must keep ntop free of charge. If you have some
This denotes that probably Deri & friend didn't understand very well
the GPL.
Maybe I can try contacting him (in Italian) and have a cearing up.
By the way, what is this program?
Ciao, William
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