Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:48:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Glimpse License Change Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961219074525.418B-100000@harlie> In-Reply-To: <199612190710.IAA26796@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Randy Terbush wrote: > > Pretty sleazy if you ask me. Charge the students tuition to > > develop it, then charge the public outrageous prices to use it. > > (Probably after getting big grants to develop it...) > > > > While clearly stating in the LICENSE that you cannot expect > > support and they take no responsibility for bugs. > > I don't think it's a _change_ in glimpse's license policy however. > All the time i know it, they always stated that commercial use > requires a license where you gotta pay something. The US$ 500 figure > is new though, the previous statement i've heard was ``between US$ 1 > and 1000''. I think the confusion comes from the fact that while the glimpse support web site has always stated that this was the case, the README that came with glimpse itself (until the latest version, I think) offered a much more liberal interpretation of the license, where it sounded like you just couldn't resell glimpse.
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