It comes down to two options for you, then. 1) Remove all mention of PG. 2) Send PG a check for 15% of whatever you are charging for your proprietary format. Use of of the PG trademark will cost you money in a commercial endeavour (which this is, if money changes hands, no matter what spin you try to put on it). Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "David A. Desrosiers" <hacker@gnu-designs.com> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:41:56 -0400 (EDT) To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Re: unauthorized PG venders
You can do all that just fine as long as you aren't charging for the redistribution. The money only comes into play if your are charging something for the redistributed works. Basically, if you're charging for it, we want our fair cut. If you're handing them out for free, no problem. See you on the flip side, dude! :)
Right, and thats the catch..
We'd be handing the works out for free in person at LUGs and such, but for those people that want _our version_ of the converted works, which involves quite a bit of hand-editing as well as several passes of post-processing to convert them to our (open and documented) portable format, shipped to them on hard-media (CD or DVD), we would (potentially) charge for the media and for the time/effort expended to convert them all.
We're not actually charging for the works themselves.
I realize it seems grey, but it is distinctly different.
d.
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