On Jan 20, 2012, at 07:51 , Patrik Jonsson wrote: > 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.
It was $29.99 last night (US west coast time). I took a screenshot of that page, including the note that says "Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X…" in the store screenshot. [...] > 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. Correct, and none of the copyright holders has said that there's a license violation. As I said last night, they should acknowledge the real authors (mainly Christiaan by this time), but I don't know if they have or not. Changing the name and selling it is legal under the BSD license, as far as I understand it, but IANAL. -- Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
