[vlc] Re: 3-Soft - Resales

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On 08 mrt 2005, at 22:07, Kujawa, Szymon wrote:
> My name is Szymon Kujawa, I am working at 3-Soft and we are a software 
> reseller in Canada.
> One of our clients is interested in your VLC Media Player product.

Great, we love it that people love us.

> These are the few questions I would like to ask you
> Is it possible to resell this product?

Well, VLC media player is opensource software and therefore free to 
distribute and use. Reselling is allowed as long as the GPL license is 
respected, but it's considered not-done if there is no Added-Value to 
the original download at
http://www.videolan.org/vlc
So if you package this product on for instance a CD with several 
programs for for instance an educational institution or government, 
then as long as the GPL is honored this is allowed.

See also: http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq/en/index.html#id2467333

> What is the retail price for this product?
0,0 dollar, aren't we a great product?

> Do you have educational prices for your products?
no, same price

> Do you have a special price for resellers or a discount program?
same price

> What are your paying terms and in which currency are you invoicing?
You can make a contribution to our project via PayPal if you want, we 
can always use donations for hardware and promotional projects for 
instance.

> How can we purchase the product: online, email PO, fax PO or would you 
> like us to call you?
You can download vlc here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc

> Do you have a part number for this product?
VLC0001-0.8.1

> What is the delivery method for your goods (email, CD-rom)?
Web only. sorry :)

> Can we use our own messenger company account (UPS, Fedex) and what is 
> the weight of your package?
Whatever you want :)

> Could you also include your phone, fax, address, email, name of the 
> person in charge?
http://www.videolan.org/contact.html



Abstract from our FAQ:
http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq/en/index.html#id2467333

3.2.

  May I redistribute a piece of VideoLAN software?

  You may distribute an original or modified version of a piece of 
VideoLAN software as long as you comply with its license terms. It is 
the GNU General Public License Version 2 (referred herein as GPL), and 
it is in the file named COPYING in our products. The easiest way to 
conform to the GPL is to accompany the product you want to distribute 
with its sources. For example, if you plan to distribute the lastest 
binary version of VLC, you should also include all the files listed on 
the VLC source code page. You do not need to bother explaining where 
the sources are, but the sources have to share the same media as the 
products. There are other ways to comply with the GPL, but this should 
be the simplest because it does not rely on a contract.

  Note

  You do not need to ask the VideoLAN team the permission to do so!

Have fun.

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Universiteit Twente
Derk-Jan Hartman (d.hartman at student.utwente dot nl)
http://home.student.utwente.nl/d.hartman

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