[dundee] Ofcom GPL issues

[Gavin Henry]

You can always contact the FSF legal team about things like this.

Thanks.

----- "Robert Ladyman" <it at file-away.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm cross-posting this as it involves a study with software that uses
> GPL 
> software: there is a claim in the report that there is 
> 
> "nothing in [the GPL] that stops the software from being:
> 
> * Given away, for free, without the source code (Freeware)
> * Given away, for free, with the source code (Opensource)
> 
> It would, however, be contrary to the licence to sell the software
> without the 
> source code."
> 
> To me, this is a misreading of the licence  - paragraph 5 in the
> preamble of 
> the licence even gives an example: "For example, if you distribute
> copies of 
> such a program, whether gratis or for a fee....", etc.
> 
> The section is in the first part of the report.
> 
> Am I correct?
> 
> Fwd: Ofcom update: Ofcom publishes speech recognition technology
> study
> > Ofcom has today published an initial study looking at the
> effectiveness of
> >  speech recognition technology used in VoIP communications and how
> it might
> >  improve accessibility to telecommunications services for hearing
> impaired
> >  consumers.
> > 
> > The VoIP text study can be found here:
> > 
> http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/policy-related-resea
> > rch/usability-research/research/speech-to-text-voip/
> > 
> > 
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