On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 08:58:19 -0500 Lucas Bergman <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Perry E. Metzger
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > It appears that the growl project, hosted on google code, is no
> > longer actually open source -- the actual sources of the released
> > version are managed privately, in secret...
> 
> 
> I'm currently in conversation with the developers.
> 
> 
> > and the program is now sold for money on the iTunes store.
> 
> 
> Whether something is sold for money is orthogonal to the issue of
> being open source.

Oh, sure, but it would appear that the motive for withholding the
source is to prevent competition with the for-pay version.

-- 
Perry E. Metzger                [email protected]

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