Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:54:40 01/30/04
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On January 30, 2004 at 17:06:18, Randall Shane wrote:
>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.
These guys are not charging for distribution media costs. There is absolutely
*NO* media distribution cost in their case. It's a downloadable program. They
don't even have to pay for the bandwidth.
I really believe that 9.95Chess is an illegal product in its current form.
Christophe
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