On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 18:52 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:44:39AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > On Friday 17 December 2004 10:22 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > > The fact that it's shareware has nothing to do with it. > > > > Yes, it does. That means (by definition) that it's under a non-Free license, > > Funny, I seem to recall the GPL saying the reverse: > > When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not > price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you > have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for > this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it > if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it > in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things. > > And, of course, the entire contents of http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html > > No doubt you know more than RMS does. http://www.trilon.com/xv/pricing.html "xv is shareware for personal use only." "Commercial, government, and institutional users ***must*** register their copies of xv." "if you use xv in the course of doing your work, whatever your 'work' may happen to be, you must register your copy of xv." "(Note: If you are a student, and you use xv to do classwork or research, you should get your professor/teacher/advisor to purchase an appropriate number of copies.)" "xv ***licenses*** are $25 each." (Emphasis mine.) http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html "With free software, users don't have to pay the distribution fee in order to use the software." "we suggest it is better to avoid using the term ``selling software'' and choose some other wording instead. For example, you could say ``distributing free software for a fee''--that is unambiguous." There's no way that xv is GPL, much less DSFG-free. > > > Or are you one of the less-than-clued who thinks you can't pay for software? > > Are you a jackass who paints his car in polka-dots? > > > > Seriously, where'd that ad-hominem non-sequitur come from? > > You seem to have a problem with paying for what you get. I bought my copies of Mandrake & Libranet, and have donated to SPI-Debian. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Fair is where you take your cows to be judged." Unknown
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