JCal Pro in violation with GNU GPL *mod note:SOLVED...was not in violation*
-
- Joomla! Apprentice
- Posts: 34
- Joined: Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:19 am
JCal Pro in violation with GNU GPL *mod note:SOLVED...was not in violation*
I have noted that although the extension JCal Pro is posted as GNU GPL it is in fact pay to download!? This is in direct violation with GNU GPL license? Is this just a mis configuration perhaps?
Regards,
Jason
Modified by Aoirthoir on 2007/11/02 at 23:33 to note in the title that no violation is occuring.
Regards,
Jason
Modified by Aoirthoir on 2007/11/02 at 23:33 to note in the title that no violation is occuring.
Last edited by aoirthoir on Sat Nov 03, 2007 3:45 am, edited 1 time in total.
-
- Joomla! Enthusiast
- Posts: 209
- Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:22 am
- Location: New York, USA
Re: JCal Pro in violation with GNU GPL
How is it violating GNU GPL?TitanKing wrote: I have noted that although the extension JCal Pro is posted as GNU GPL it is in fact pay to download!? This is in direct violation with GNU GPL license? Is this just a mis configuration perhaps?
Regards,
Jason
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
"You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee."
**edit**
I just took a look at their website, and checking their Terms and Conditions, they are quite clear.
http://dev.anything-digital.com/content/view/4/122/
"JCal Pro is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. All existing copyrights (above) must be prominently visible on all modified versions of this software."
So, your rights are not infringed. If you wanted to download all their GPL components and put them up on your own server for free download, that is your right.
The only thing you pay for is to download their software.
Last edited by garyamort on Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- infograf768
- Joomla! Master
- Posts: 19133
- Joined: Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:47 pm
- Location: **Translation Matters**
Re: JCal Pro in violation with GNU GPL
Moving to legal forum.
Note: Open Source is not equal to free as in free beer.
Note: Open Source is not equal to free as in free beer.
Jean-Marie Simonet / infograf
---------------------------------
ex-Joomla Translation Coordination Team • ex-Joomla! Production Working Group
---------------------------------
ex-Joomla Translation Coordination Team • ex-Joomla! Production Working Group
-
- Joomla! Apprentice
- Posts: 34
- Joined: Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:19 am
Re: JCal Pro in violation with GNU GPL
My apologies to JCal Pro,
I should have done better research...
Regards.
I should have done better research...
Regards.
-
- Joomla! Champion
- Posts: 7018
- Joined: Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:35 pm
- Location: Nebraska
- Contact:
Re: JCal Pro in violation with GNU GPL
In my opinion, Vic has an excellent approach. He is respecting Joomla!'s license and clearly stating expectations with the end user community. As end users, we need to support our open source developers and Vic is helping us understand how to do that with his work. It's a good model, I think.
Amy
Amy
- vdrover
- Joomla! Guru
- Posts: 609
- Joined: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:26 pm
- Location: Canuck via MKE
- Contact:
Re: JCal Pro in violation with GNU GPL *mod note:SOLVED...was not in violation*
I just noticed this thread. Thanks for the support and clarification.
Victor Drover
https://watchful.net - Remote backup, update and security monitoring for Joomla.
https://watchful.net - Remote backup, update and security monitoring for Joomla.
- undoIT
- Joomla! Enthusiast
- Posts: 149
- Joined: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:40 am
- Contact:
Re: JCal Pro in violation with GNU GPL *mod note:SOLVED...was no
I just purchased Jcal Pro for use on a client's website. Quality software is worth paying for and $20 is very reasonable. Thank you Vic for making this available under GNU/GPL. I refuse to spend even one cent on any software that is encrypted or comes with a restrictive license.
Best of success
Best of success
- vdrover
- Joomla! Guru
- Posts: 609
- Joined: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:26 pm
- Location: Canuck via MKE
- Contact:
Re: JCal Pro in violation with GNU GPL *mod note:SOLVED...was no
Cheers mate. I will admit that it took a while for us to ge the formula right, bu tit appears to be working well now (despite a nasty bug that DST dropped in our lap recently).
Victor Drover
https://watchful.net - Remote backup, update and security monitoring for Joomla.
https://watchful.net - Remote backup, update and security monitoring for Joomla.
- brian
- Joomla! Master
- Posts: 12787
- Joined: Fri Aug 12, 2005 7:19 am
- Location: Leeds, UK
- Contact:
Re: JCal Pro in violation with GNU GPL *mod note:SOLVED...wa
Please start your own forum thread or better still go over to the dedicated JCAL forums at dev.anything-digital.com
"Exploited yesterday... Hacked tomorrow"
Blog http://brian.teeman.net/
Joomla Hidden Secrets http://hiddenjoomlasecrets.com/
Blog http://brian.teeman.net/
Joomla Hidden Secrets http://hiddenjoomlasecrets.com/