Re: imapsync
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:46:29 +0200, Javier Barroso wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>>>> [1] http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync_list/msg00732.html
>>>
>>> Yes, I've alredy read it, and...? I still don't get his point. What's
>>> the gain in limiting its distribution? You can still charge the users
>>> for it.
>>
>> If you buy it you can do what do you want (WTFPL license) with it, so
>> you can distribute if you want. But I imagine buying software to
>> distribute it is not the Debian Philosophy, so they/we don't that
>
> But what's the gain of that requirement?
The autor is winning money and before he didn't win what he want to
win, so he changed his strategy. That is his gain, I think
>
> You download from whatever place (packaged from distributions or direct
> download from developers website) and then you pay for it (payment
> required, not optional) as many other FLOSS software do but limiting its
> distribution is IMO, senseless (because as you said, only one guy can pay
> for it and then freely redistribute anywhere...).
Surely there are many people which will pay for that and then they
won't want to distribute something that they payed ...
Other people, of course, will distribute it .. (and people which get
these copies won't pay)
Regards,
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