From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Dec 19 07:50:26 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA27471 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:50:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA27466 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:50:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from harlie (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.2]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA28130; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:48:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:48:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" X-Sender: ejs@harlie To: Joerg Wunsch cc: Randy Terbush , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Glimpse License Change In-Reply-To: <199612190710.IAA26796@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.