On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 at 16:50:28 -0700
Bruce Perens <bruce@???> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <
> enrico.weigelt@???> wrote:
>
>>
>> By selling, I mean, you'll first have to pay before you get the code.
>> But anybody republish it at will (as long as complying to GPL), so
>> how can that business model work ?
>
>
> It doesn't, unless you have understanding customers who just don't
> redistribute because they want you to stay in business. But grsecurity
> doesn't work that way, it is alleged. It is alleged that they tell
> customers that if they redistribute, they will no longer be allowed to be a
> customer or get the next version.
>
> IMO that's violating the GPL.

I don't remember reading anywhere in the GPL a clause forcing someone to
entertain a commercial relationship with someone they'd rather not. It is
stated you are free to sell or give away GPL'ed code, but it does not say you
must sell it to anyone who asks you to do so. I know of no licence that
contains such a clause.


Alessandro