I think Raj pointed out the opposite. On May 8, 2012 10:36 PM, "Krishnakant mane" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The software should be available fully without any license charge. > You can charge for your service. > I am also interested if source code is available or not? > GPL does not say that you can't charge, but the software must be free for > use, reuse and distribution. > Which means there should not be a think like license code or some thing as > raj pointed out. > Happy hacking. > Krishnakant. > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 06:21:45PM +0530, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 May 2012, Pravin Dhayfule wrote: > > > 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? > > > > This is bound to happen if you mix up free apples with free speech. > > > > Software under the GPL is free as in freedom, not necessarily free as in > > without charge. You have access to the source code; if you don't want > > to pay for the Winduhs version, nothing is stopping you from compiling > > your own binary on Winduhs and using it, giving it away or even selling > > it in competition to gcompris.net. > > > > That's what freedom is all about. > > > > Regards, > > > > -- Raj > > -- > > Raj Mathur || [email protected] || GPG: > > http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 > > It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F > > _______________________________________________ > > network mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in >
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