Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269895AbUJGW4i (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:56:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269873AbUJGWzk (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:55:40 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:17902 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269872AbUJGWdF (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:33:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4165C410.7050901@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:32:48 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeff V. Merkey" CC: Alan Cox , jonathan@jonmasters.org, "jmerkey@comcast.net" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone References: <100120041740.9915.415D967600014EC2000026BB2200758942970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> <35fb2e590410011509712b7d1@mail.gmail.com> <415DD1ED.6030101@drdos.com> <1096738439.25290.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41659748.9090906@drdos.com> <4165A5E3.6050602@nortelnetworks.com> <4165B3A0.3090003@drdos.com> In-Reply-To: <4165B3A0.3090003@drdos.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 580 Lines: 16 Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > $50,000 per copy -- that's a hell of a pricetag. Windows only goes for > $100.00 a copy. Um..you said BSD license. That gives you unlimited use to redistribute in proprietary products. A similar Windows license would *not* be $100. As an example, the windows media DRM license is $400,000 anually. Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/