Gervase Markham, licensing guru for the Mozilla Foundation, recently received a startling email
from a local government department in the UK. This department had
recently discovered people selling copies of Mozilla Firefox, and gave
the Foundation a courtesy call before calling in the cops.
The explanation that Mozilla not only permits but encourages people to
redistribute their software, even for money, shook one poor
bureaucrat's world to it's foundations.
"I
can't believe that your company would allow people
to make money from something that you allow people to have free access
to," she spluttered. Extraordinarily, she even complained that
giving your customers the freedom to do this "makes it virtually
impossible for us, from a practical point of view,
to enforce UK anti-piracy legislation."
Hello, allow me to introduce you to the twenty-first century - I don't believe you've met.
