On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Fischlin Andreas <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe one needs to strongly protest. I believe this to be completely > inacceptable and a violation of all open source ethics to ask money, and even > quite a steep price, i.e. $29.99, for Skim. Has to be stopped as quickly as > possible and the company Applest sued or at least make sure Apple kicks them > off for good.
$29.99? It shows up as free in my app store. The copyright notice, though, is clearly a violation. But otherwise, it doesn't seem to be a license violation to me, only bad form. Since the license does after all say: "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:" we can't really argue that someone is not allowed to put it on the app store and even charge for it, provided they meet those conditions. If Skim was GPL, they would be required to give the source to anyone that they sell it to, but that doesn't seem to be required by the Skim license. So as long as they change the copyright notice it should be within their right. I'm not defending this behavior, but if the copyright holders don't want Skim to be redistributed, the license should be changed. One can't simultaneously say it should be free software and then complain when people exercise that right, as long as they comply with the terms of the license. cheers, /Patrik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
