Resale Rights

users
#1

Hi im a big fan of your free software and wondered if i could attain resale rights thus allowing me to distribute your product within the uk on cd roms which will definitely promote your product/company.

#2

Alfie Mc wrote:

Hi im a big fan of your free software and wondered if i could attain resale rights thus allowing me to distribute your product within the uk on cd roms which will definitely promote your product/company.

As I understand it, there are no "resale rights". You are free to
distribute LibreOffice and charge a nominal fee for a CD. OpenOffice
had details for those wanting to do similar, but I don't see anything
about it on the LibreOffice site.

#3

Any fee, not just "nominal". I recently wrote about this here:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/is-it-legal-to-sell-gpl-software/

HTH,
  Marco
  http://mfioretti.com

#4

Hello M.,

Any fee, not just "nominal". I recently wrote about this here:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/is-it-legal-to-sell-gpl-software/

TL;DNR.

Whilst selling at any fee is certainly legal, I believe that charging
more than cost covering fees is morally reprehensible.

Of course, your article may well take that position, IDK.

#5

too bad you didn't. It explains exactly that the inventors of the GPL
don't believe what you do.

      Marco

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
I think that depends on who is involved in the community of the
product. If all the work has been done by a single company or
partnership or person then i figure that they deserve to earn money
from that. If they have been generous enough to GPL the software then
updates and upgrades from the community might be morally awkward to
charge for unless a decent proportion of that money goes back into
developing the community. If the community is providing user-support,
marketing, documentation and stuff like that then it might be good to
see the community benefiting from that a bit too. I think the
important thing is that people have free access to the code
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

I was asked to forward this to the appropriate mailing list - Alfie I think you'll get a response. My understanding is a) technically yes, b) if it meets certain criteria including keeping our labeling and I believe letting people know that they can get it for free from the website, c) charging a nominal amount and likely d) don't add spyware to ruin our reputation.

That being said, you should receive an email from someone else at some point soon hopefully.

Best,
Joel