Author: Randall Shane
Date: 14:06:18 01/30/04
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On January 30, 2004 at 15:30:08, Dan Ellwein wrote: >On January 30, 2004 at 13:43:19, Christophe Theron wrote: <snippage> >> >>I don't think there is any comparison. 9.95 Chess is a very old and weak version >>of GnuChess with a poor GUI. >> >>I even believe that these guys are breaking the GPL license by selling it. >>GnuChess is free software, and any related work should also be made available >>for free. I think it is illegal to ask money for free software. >> > >agree... no comparison... > >also agree that it is illegal (or at the very least unethical) to ask money for >free software... > >Dan Actually, for GPL'ed software, you're allowed to change for distribution and media costs -- which can be anything, of course. However, the GPL license says you have to make the source code available if you make the binaries available, and you can't in any other way restrict distribution of the binaries+source code. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html for an explanation.
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