On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 11:50:18 -0400 Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Sep 9, 2016, at 11:39 AM, Gene Irwin <girwin1...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Another potentially pot-stirriing question: > > > > What does the simh community think about the copy of simh in the > > Google play store that is a pay for app and that it requires > > another pay for AP to be useful (a terminal made by the same > > author)? > > That's perfectly legitimate given the BSD-style license used by > SIMH. This is precisely the sort of thing that people choose to > allow when they pick that kind of license (and choose to make more > difficult though not impossible when they choose GPL instead). > > Note that nothing prevents you or anyone else from releasing your own > copy of SIMH for Android, either as a free app or otherwise. > > Some people feel that open source projects should not be distributed > for money. If you feel that way, there are licenses that impose such > restrictions (though those typically are *not* considered valid open > source licenses precisely because of that restriction). But in the > projects I'm familiar with, not only is commercial distribution > considered valid, it is often encouraged as a way to bring more > motivated contributors to the project. Indeed. I do wish the damn thing worked, though. I rather liked being able to fire up VMS on my phone. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
