Can 1C sell someone else's OpenSource software?!!!?

Question

1C

I found this here: www.1c.ru/news/info.jsp?id=13439
Nothing of their own is included from 1C, they just wrap and sell other people's products, which are also free! How normal is this?

Answer 1

In fact, free licenses generally do not prohibit the sale. On the contrary, they allow you to use the software for any purpose, including commercial. Another question is who needs to buy for money what you can get for free. True, perhaps the answer lies here: Well, it also costs money, do you agree?
Программный продукт поставляется в коробке с двумя CD дисками, печатной документацией и технической поддержкой в течение двух месяцев со дня первого обращения.

Answer 2

They are generally sacked from around the corner. If anyone remembers the Mount & Blade game, there was a big difference between the original edition and localization. In addition, 1C sewed into the Russian version a limit of 3 activations of the game.
Offtopic, but painful.
By subject. This not normal. IMHO is designed for those who do not know about the existence of these products separately, outside the 1C package.
A joint project of 1C and ALT Linux. Edition of the series "1C: Distribution".
Assess the degree of paranoia and try to select the text on this page and press Ctrl + C.

Answer 3

The GPL license does not prohibit this, sell it to your health)
The same Linux is full of paid enterprise editions.
The main thing is that the source code is always available

Answer 4

gpl does not prohibit the sale of open source projects, the source code is only the main thing to lay out if you made changes.

Answer 5

Normal or not depends on the license of this free software.

Answer 6

Of course, they have the right to sell, just like, for example, Red Hat.
I'll even tell you who buys it in Russia. In a large firm, lawyers, for example, may require that all software be licensed. And GPL printouts downloaded from the Internet do not work here. In the case of 1C, you get a printed license, contract, disks, invoices - in general, all the nonsense, after which no arrogant inspector can prove that you are using counterfeit.

Answer 7

If a person buys this software set from 1C, and does not download it from the official websites of the developers, he is unlikely to be familiar with the term "Sources".

Answer 8

The software product is delivered in a box with two CDs, printed documentation and technical support within two months from the date of the first request.

Answer 9

They can sell the software itself. But at the first request they are obliged to provide the source code.

Answer 10

This is, of course, wild insanity, but I do not rule out that open office can be sold. But in the list among gmps and inkscapes there is also Adobe Reader. Selling someone else's proprietary software is somehow too outrageous.

Answer 11

Even if the license forbade the sale of the product, they would have got out by selling not the product itself, but the service of selecting a package of products and recording them on a disc.

Answer 12

Judging by the description, there is no source code on the disks. If it is somewhere, then everything is fine, you can sell without hindrance.

Answer 13

This is most likely necessary for legal entities who, in theory, cannot download open source and use it. If software is a means of production, it must be purchased, at least for a conditional price of 1 ruble. Here the price is more than 1 rub, but there is support and documentation.