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On 12/10/12 12:28, tom wrote: > On 12/10/12 12:24, Rob Beard wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I've been having a look at setting up an IPCop box with DansGuardian. >> >> During my search on how to get it installed on IPCop I came across this: >> >> http://dansguardian.org/?page=copyright2 >> >> DansGuardian 2 is: >> >> - *licensed under the GPL version 2 with permission to link to OpenSSL* >> - Open Source >> - Free Software where 'Free' means Freedom >> - freely (no cost) downloadable from this site for non-commercial use >> - freely (no cost) downloadable from this site for general purpose >> unix distributions like FreeBSD, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc >> - not freely downloadable from this site for installation by 3rd >> parties charging for installation or support >> - *not freely downloadable from this site for commercial use* >> - a registered trade mark of Daniel Barron >> - copyright Daniel Barron >> >> The thing I was wondering, it's released under the GPL 2 but the >> author of the software appears to be adding additional restrictions >> to the software when downloaded from his site... basically it can't >> be used for commercial use. >> >> Now I can understand asking for donations, or charging for support >> (as it happens he doesn't provide commercial support) so surely if he >> wants to restrict non-commercial use then presumably it should be >> released under another license? >> >> As it happens I'm not looking to use it for commercial use, but it >> seems odd that it's restricted this way. >> >> Rob >> > I'm not 100% sure but I think that violates GPL2 - especially if some > of the components are GPL2ed and not his copyright. > Tom te tom te tom > It may be worth simply asking ? I know creative commons licensing can be either commercial or non commercial. Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 http://www.raspberrypi.org http://www.ubuntu.com -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq