At 10:22 6-6-2009 -0700, Tim Mann wrote: ...
You do generally need to make sure that you have permission to redistribute things, and if you bundle a lot of stuff together, your bundle is effectively bound by the most restrictive license. For instance, if you put a "free for all non-commercial purposes" font in the bundle, then maybe it's not OK for anyone to include that bundle on a CD that is sold, not even as an extra add-in. (Generally the "free for non-commercial purposes" type of license is a bad thing, since it's not well defined what a "commercial purpose" is.)
Well, I don't really see this as a problem. The WinBoard installer bundle is not supposed to appear on any CD, we only make it for people to download it from our website and mirrors. But the fact that we can bundle things with incompatible licences together definitely does make life a lot easier. In particular, it means it is possible without any disadvantage at all to bundle together with closed-source freeware, such as Joker80, HaQiKi D, most of the Chess fonts from http://www.enpassant.dk/chess/fonteng.htm , etc. H.G.
