distribution question

[Ken Moffat]

thomas schoenhoff wrote:

>Hello,
>
>"XFce is a lightweight desktop environment for various UNIX  systems." <xfce at xfce.org> schrieb am 08.09.03 23:40:08:
>
>I made some debian and slackware packages that I was going to share with 
>whoever (on personal web server) but was advised that to do that might 
>violate licensing for redistribution. Any opinions? What might the legal 
>requirements be?
>
>Could you become a bit more precisely, what does this mean:
>
>AFAIK as long as you are packing GPL'ed software there is no problem to redistribute/sell these packages to anybody! Only if there are some elements in Slackware (don't know a damm about this distri!) which are not GPL'ed you might run into troubles. Make clear that everybody knows that your debs are inofficial and redistribution might be a safe bet!
>
>
>Thomas 
>  
>

These are just packages (deb and tgz) for libranet 2.8 and slackware 9 
of xfce4_3.99.3. The warning was that redistribution without the gpl 
would violate  the license.

-- 
Ken