On Jan 20, 2012, at 17:41, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> 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
Indeed, the BSD license is pretty permissive. However, it has an
acknowledgement clause for reuse, namely inclusion of the original copyright:
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
distribution.
However, there's no acknowledgement whatsoever in their about box. So I think
they're in violation, though IANAL either.
But it is certainly not very nice behavior.
the other thing of course is the App Store requirements. I am not sure what
they are, but do they allow non-original apps? Though I do think Skim doesn't
comply with certain App Store requirements (and this app as well.)
Christiaan
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