Re: Re: Licence question - commercial usage.

2016-10-25 Thread Harry Thijssen
In addition to myself. The big problem is most people regard Freeware and Free Software as just a mispelling of the same license.This is a huge misunderstanding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freewaregives a nice explanation of the differences. You might also check https://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: Re: Licence question - commercial usage.

2016-10-20 Thread Harry Thijssen
Hi In addition to Alan's answer and a bit philosophical: The word FREE comes from Freedom, not Free of charge. You can read a nice explanation of it in: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html >From this page: A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedom

Re: Licence question - commercial usage.

2016-10-17 Thread Alan Mead
Piotr, In a word, Yes. The longer answer is that PSPP is licensed under the GPL3 (or later) and you can read that document to understand your rights but compared to traditional commercial software your rights under the GPL are *considerable* (you can use PSPP as you wish, you are entitled to a c