Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 08:10:17 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: randy@zyzzyva.com (Randy Terbush) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Glimpse License Change Message-ID: <199612190710.IAA26796@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612182246.QAA05775@sierra.zyzzyva.com> from Randy Terbush at "Dec 18, 96 04:46:33 pm"
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As Randy Terbush wrote: > Are port maintainers aware of this? > > 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. Don't people like Sun Microsystems state the same? At least, they don't assume responsibility for the problems caused by bugs, and you can't sue them for a bugfix either. 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''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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