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An Open Source Software Police?
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| Keep in mind I'm not talking here about stuff like the lawsuits the Software
| Freedom Law Center uses to insure that people comply with the GPL (although
| that's something that could be discussed in parallel with this). The BSA and
| the SFLC are apples and kumquats. I am talking about illegitimate use of the
| for-pay version of Movable Type that SixApart licenses to you under its own
| terms. The former is a lot easier to spot, but it's a lot tougher to find out
| (short of someone ratting out the offender) that a Web site is using a
| bootlegged copy of the pro edition of MT.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/an_open_source_1.html
Related:
Legality of Fedora in production environment
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| Recently the appropriate laws in my country (Russia) have beens
| ignificantly toughened. Now the police can check for illegal software
| usage by their own initiative (without request from the owner). The
| tax inspection demands that software should be registered at
| accounts departments.
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| During such a checking, the user is obliged now to show all hardcopy
| license documents (with original signatures and stamps).
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http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-May/msg00697.html
What about selling free software
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| Gervase Markham, the Mozilla Foundation's licensing officer, in an
| article in the Times Online, talks about being questioned by a
| northern UK Trading License Officer about giving away software.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| The trading officer was concerned by a group that was burning the
| free Mozilla Browser on CDs and selling it.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/what_about_selling_free_software
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