At 06:53 PM 11/16/97 -0800, Lucky Green wrote:
At 06:25 PM 11/16/97 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
I'm pleased to see PGP Inc. permitting development of freeware, but at leased from a first reading of the license, it's a _really_ restrictive definition of "freeware" - not only does the software have to be free, but it can only be used in extremely restrictively non-commercial activities.
The idea is simple: you make money from software that costs the authors lots of money to develop or use their software in a business environment (=to make money), you have to pay the people that spent time, effort, and, yes, money, on making it happen.
Sounds reasonable to me.
I can see where they want to make a profit, but the licence makes the software virtually undistributable by normal shareware channels.
From what I have read of the license it is against the license agreement to ship the libraries on a CD of shareware products for which a price is charged.
If I were to create a program using the libraries and upload them to Simtel or one of the other big archives, it could not be distributed on a Simtel CD-ROM that someone was charging money for. (Ignoring the usual export issues.) I see this as a big problem. --- | "That'll make it hot for them!" - Guy Grand | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan@ctrl-alt-del.com|