On 06/02/2011 09:49, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>> Interesting thread here - would need to look more closely, but it seems
>> the whole thing is based on GNU open source, so MC may be rather out of
>> order for charging ~=A3800 for not much more than repackaging and
>> distributing it...
> How would they be out of order? Specifically, which clause of the GPL do
> they violate? IMHO none.
>

I'm not sure (hence the use of "may") as I'm no expert on the GPL=20
license. I also didn't necessarily mean "legally" out of order.
I thought that under the terms of the GPL it was not legal to charge for=20
the code under that license but legal to charge for the cost of=20
distributing it or something along those lines (not sure what it says=20
about "unreasonable" distribution charges though)
I'm sure they have covered themselves legally, but legal doesn't always=20
equal ethical - the folk discussing it on the thread seem to think it=20
was maybe a bit "cheeky", though as I said, I would have to look more=20
closely to come to any conclusion.


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