Selling Stellarium on Ebay

[red dwalf]

Maybe jenna is the seller, way to make friends

[Kai]

You're are just a bitter idiot.

Read the GPL before you rattle your sabre.

Wow i would love to see a post from you when you get "passionate" about a subject

Dont know if i should welcome you to SGL or point you towards the nearest exit

[Ant]

The door has been shown.

Sorry I'm not putting up with that. IMO that's pretty much a personal attack.

If it was an established member having a bad day - then a PM asking not to do it again would have been right, but a first post... that doesn't deserve any consideration.

Ant

[Stu]

Well done that man. Don't need that sort of thing round here

Stu

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[JamesF]

IMO that's pretty much a personal attack.

I don't see there's any room for doubt about that, really. Not called for at all.

James

[red dwalf]

That's got to be the shortest membership ever, 1 post and banned !

[StevieDvd]

In the early days of Linux one of the only practical ways of getting it was to buy a CD with the distro you needed. So I guess that's why the authors usually deliberately allowed the concept of sale by others.

[saturn4me]

Showing jenna the door was the right thing to do.We might all have differences of opinions but a personal attack is way out of order.Her first and only post too!.Moral of this story=Respect each other:)

[x6gas]

The door has been shown.

Sorry I'm not putting up with that. IMO that's pretty much a personal attack.

If it was an established member having a bad day - then a PM asking not to do it again would have been right, but a first post... that doesn't deserve any consideration.

Ant

Swift action like this is what keeps this forum what it is. Tres bien.

[JamesF]

In the early days of Linux one of the only practical ways of getting it was to buy a CD with the distro you needed. So I guess that's why the authors usually deliberately allowed the concept of sale by others.

Not really. The GPL predates Linux by a long way. Ten years or more I think. It just happens that most of the software that forms part of many Linux distributions happens to be released under the GPL or other licences that allowed resale, largely because if you're creating a distribution that requires certain core software there's no point re-inventing the wheel. Some of that software also appeared in other UNIX-derived distributions such as the "free" BSDs and Minix.

(In fact, in the early days of Linux -- circa 1993/1994, not that many people had access to CD drives and it was quite common to download it and write it to a fistful of floppies

James

[Stu Skywatcher]

It's still on ebay I was going to start a new thread, but did a search and found this one.....

I was stunned when I saw it there. Whatever the legalities - selling free to download software, profit from someone else's work, just seems plain wrong to me....

[Cornelius Varley]

There is nothing illegal about selling Stellerium or similar free software on ebay, the licence allows this, but why would you want to buy something that can be downloaded freely from the origin source or is given away freely in magazines ?

Peter

[r3i]

(In fact, in the early days of Linux -- circa 1993/1994, not that many people had access to CD drives and it was quite common to download it and write it to a fistful of floppies

James

I remember those days (showing my age) - there was a veritable cottage industry of folks providing catalogues full of shareware & freeware. All those zillions of floppies must now be in a landfill site somewhere I guess.

[Gina]

Not all of them - I've got a boxful in the loft - what for I don't know Must get round to throwing them out!

[MikeWilson]

I saw a page on Ebay which is clearly selling Stellarium: ASTRONOMY PRO SOLAR SYSTEM STAR GAZING SOFTWARE VISTA | eBay

Is this legal?

The same seller had previously received negative feedback for selling a free flight sim application too!