GPL violation?

[memoryss 0]

http://www.4fro.cn/viewthread.php?tid=2642&extra=page%3D1

selling modified eathena, does it violate GPL license?

[Judas 100]

depends.

 

They are allowed to sell it, but they have to supply all the src files along with it as well. They can't just supply the binary files

[jaBote 438]

Well, Inkfish originally worked in Athena projects but this is the same as what happened to eAmod about a year ago.

 

You can freely modify the emulator and charge whatever you want for it, but you can't re-release the software under more restrictive license the original software has. So as long as the GPL license is intact and he doesn't threat people without a "legal" copy of his software as eAmod owner did (under GPL licenses it's legally impossible to pirate a software) it's completely legal.

 

But if any customer pays for the modification then decides to redistribute it for free, he's in the absolute right to do so.

[memoryss 0]

Thanks for replying.

 

I have downloaded the test ver., and I cannot find any sorce code/GPL license included.

 

6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.  You may convey a covered work in object code form under the termsof sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey themachine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License,in one of these ways

Edited April 29, 2013 by memoryss

[Judas 100]

then im guessing you only see the binary files?

[memoryss 0]

yes

included

login-server.exe

char-server.exe

map-server.exe

 

without any source code

Edited April 29, 2013 by memoryss