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To: Golden Eagle
They shouldn't call it "free software" then, since it's not.

"Free" as in speech, not as in beer. The license terms are simple, straightforward, and made clear. I can't believe you're defending a company who committed theft of IP simply because you don't like the license the original authors used on their own code.

Seriously, if they just wanted to give it away for nothing, they could have released it under a BSD-style license, which would do exactly that.

37 posted on 09/21/2007 12:18:37 PM PDT by kevkrom (The religion of global warming: "There is no goddess but Gaia and Al Gore is her profit.")
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To: kevkrom
I can't believe you're defending a company who committed theft of IP simply because you don't like the license the original authors used on their own code.

You're not new here, are you? ;)

39 posted on 09/21/2007 12:21:46 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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