On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's also a small matter of behavior. The fact that, strictly speaking, > you;re allowed to does not mean you should take advantage of that. There's no > cost in asking, and he didn't. Not even in the most minimal and legally > required way. Quite frankly, this freeloading behavior I find the most > upsetting, and if we can punish him for that maximally for this by removing > it from the App Store I support that. With all due respect, I think you have an unrealistic view of humanity. To many people, "the fact that strictly speaking you are allowed to" means exactly that: you are allowed to, and expecting otherwise will just cause you to get upset. Moreover, apart from the fact that he's violating the terms of the license by not retaining the copyright, I really fail to see what this is about. The Skim license allows redistribution, commercial or not, and one of the fundamental rights given to users of free software is the right do do whatever they want with it, within the terms of he license, *without asking for permission*. If you look in chapter 8 of RMS's "free software, free society" (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf) he says: "Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible—just enough to cover the cost. Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If this seems surprising to you, please read on. The word “free” has two legitimate general meanings; it can refer either to freedom or to price. When we speak of “free software,” we’re talking about freedom, not price. Specifically, it means that a user is free to run the program, change the program, and redistribute the program with or without changes." It seems to me that this is *exactly* what he's talking about. 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
