Great, sound like a court case in the making. Who ever has done this is breaking the very license. happy hacking. Krishnakant.On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 03:44:07PM +0530, Pravin Dhayfule wrote: > Hi, > > I had seen and used GCompris on Ubuntu and suggested it to a friend for his > school going child. The only problem was that he uses Windows (and has no > recent plans for shfting to GNU/Linux). So I asked him to download and > install GCompris for Windows. But to a greatest shock (as I was not earlier > aware of it), GCompris after loading on Windows asks for a Code (that > sounded like a license key) wit a note "The Windows versions have a limited > number of activities, about 60 on the 120 available and to get all 120 > activities the user has to PAY". This edition (restricted) also is > distributed under GPL. > > Now as per my Knowledge GPL distributed software are FREE to use and > Distribute (only services such as distribution, etc. are chargeable). How > come GCompris is distributed as a proprietary software as a DEMO version > and Pay for Full edition under GPL? > > They have specified this even on their site: > http://gcompris.net/Buying-the-Windows-version > > How can users get converted to GNU-Linux just by making software PAID for > Windows? And inspite of that call it FREE? > > Regards > > > -- > Pravin Balaji Dhayfule
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