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将商业软件放入免费包并且不贡献任何重要内容是否合法？

[英]Is it legal to for commercial software to a free package and not contribute anything significant?

原文 2017-01-19 19:05:38 0 1 package/ licensing

Say there is a npm package which enables me to do functionality A. Say I write a wrapping software which basically just offers functionality A, just packages it more nicely but -apart from that- is nothing more.假设有一个 npm 包可以让我执行功能 A。假设我编写了一个包装软件，它基本上只提供功能 A，只是将它打包得更好，但除此之外，仅此而已。

Would it be legal to sell this software?出售此软件是否合法？ Does the original contributor of functionality A (the person who wrote the npm package) get anything?功能 A 的原始贡献者（编写 npm 包的人）是否得到了什么？

I feel like some people have done some great work, and I don't understand how it's possible that I can just use their packages and, theoretically, sell them as mine (as it were).我觉得有些人做了一些伟大的工作，我不明白我怎么可能只使用他们的包，理论上，把它们当作我的（就像我的一样）出售。 Or am I misunderstanding some fundamental things here?还是我在这里误解了一些基本的东西？

1 个解决方案

Generally the answer is:一般的答案是：

Yes you are allowed to sell it (most of the time).是的，您可以出售它（大部分时间）。
Pretty much any software you buy these days includes free software你现在购买的几乎所有软件都包含免费软件

More detailed:更详细：

there are really many licenses.确实有很多许可证。 Start with https://spdx.org/licenses/ .从https://spdx.org/licenses/开始。
the license of the original package may not allow the selling part.原包装的许可可能不允许销售部分。 This is very rare这是非常罕见的
Sometimes you need to distribute your code (eg GPL3) but you can sell the software.有时您需要分发您的代码（例如 GPL3），但您可以出售该软件。
Most free licenses try to make sure the work gets reused and sometime add conditions that they or their software gets attributed.大多数免费许可证都试图确保作品被重用，有时还会添加条件，以说明他们或他们的软件的归属。 They are not so much interested in money他们对钱没那么感兴趣