[mythtv] License

[Sid Boyce]

Myth TV wrote:
> Sid Boyce wrote:
> /Perhaps this guy would best be advised to google on the outcomes of
> challenges for GPL license violations./
>  
> Perhaps you should read my posts again before say something like that,
> and I mean MY posts, not the others. I don't understand why is so
> difficult to you to understand that I don't want, and I will not,
> violate any license in any way.
> /
> They expect that if the code is free to download, the license is invalid
> - WRONG and cannot be enforced - WRONG AGAIN - a sort of mentality that
> says why shouldn't we be free to use the efforts of others in our
> product without having to give away our own efforts.
> No one is forced to use GPL code, they can write their own and make it
> proprietary, may be they are too lazy or stupid to do that./
> 
> Please, please, read my posts. Who does expect that? Who has said that?
> 
> Alan Perry wrote:
> /The original poster was asking a straightforward question which turns
> out to have a fairly complicated answer/
> // 
> Exactly. Thank you Alan. That's the point. My first question was
> /Hi all,
> is there any commercial license of MythTV, besides GNU GPL?
> Is there any way of using MythTV code in the development of, for
> example, the software of a SetTopBox, without having to release this new
> software under the terms of GPL?
> Thanks a lot/
> // 
> I was looking for a commercial license or any LEGAL way to use the code,
> without any intention to violate anything. If you think (or know) it's
> imposible a good answer would be "no", nothing else. My intention was
> not to get a definitive answer, only to get opinions about the technical
> aspects of the matter.
> Thanks anyway
>  

My sincere apologies, I was responding to that one snippet of your post
that was quoted which led to the wrong impression being formed.
Regards
Sid.
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