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[rabon33]

as i said in another related thread:

rabon33, on 15 March 2011, 16:42, said:

Sure! whoever can sell code, encode his own created code that is called by oscommerce etc...

Is up to the customer buy your script or not, the customer has the right to know that the framework is !oscommerce!, knowing that the framework comes from oscommerce and this is free; the customer has the option to download the free code from oscommerce page and make all the modification, new modules etc by himself.. doing that for "free".

Or, he can buy a modified store saving hours and hours of work and tests; knowing that if he got partial encoded source, he can not profit himself by reselling the modified code, or giving up for free to thousand of persons, in detriment of the coder who invested hours and hours moddifing code.

[DunWeb]

Jason,

Responding to a 2 yr old thread is redundant...but, would be more useful if your quoted response made sense.




Chris

[NielsVanDelt]

I have worked with osCommerce since 2004 and contributed alot to the application. if someone ended selling my ideas i'm kind of insulted.

[DunWeb]

Arana,


If you have submitted your 'ideas' under GPL on this forum, then anyone can use and redistribute the scripts. To clarify, people who 'sell' osCommerce aren't actually selling the GPL software, they are selling their time it took to integrate all of the contributions into a functioning cart.





Chris

[cannuck1964]

DunWeb, on 22 August 2011, 15:04, said:

Arana,


If you have submitted your 'ideas' under GPL on this forum, then anyone can use and redistribute the scripts. To clarify, people who 'sell' osCommerce aren't actually selling the GPL software, they are selling their time it took to integrate all of the contributions into a functioning cart.

Chris

The seller need not make any changes and can still sell osC. If I found someone is willing to pay me I could sell them the cart without making any changes at any time. The GPL allows anyone to sell the software as is, renamed to a new name (without changes) or anything else. What you can not do is change the licensing, encrypt the logic or remove any of the copyrights.

cheers

Peter

[DunWeb]

cannuck1964, on 22 August 2011, 16:01, said:

The seller need not make any changes and can still sell osC. If I found someone is willing to pay me I could sell them the cart without making any changes at any time. The GPL allows anyone to sell the software as is, renamed to a new name (without changes) or anything else. What you can not do is change the licensing, encrypt the logic or remove any of the copyrights.cheersPeter

Good point Peter, thanks for the clarification.


Chris

[EmilFalck]

Im not an OScommerce pro so im not even 100% sure that this site is actually selling it or if its something else, but with what i know of OSC i think its what he selling as "My webbshop", re-branded and changed copyright to himself.

The page is in Swedish with some pieces of English (the one who drives the site is a real scammer and are currently under "investigation" in this thread; https: // www . flashback . org/t1638445 )

And here is the page selling the webshop: www.min-ebutik.se/catalog/

If im wrong or out of line you are welcome to remove my post [img]http://forums.oscommerce.com//public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.png[/img]

regards Emil

Edited by Jan Zonjee, 14 September 2011, 19:34.

[amritsehgal]

I don't think so, reselling the osCommerce website is ill-eagle. May be copyright can create the issue.

[DunWeb]

amritsehgal, on 03 January 2012, 13:47, said:

I don't think so, reselling the osCommerce website is ill-eagle. May be copyright can create the issue.

As mentioned above several times, it is LEGAL to sell osCommerce as long as the GPL (GNU) is not violated.



Chris