Comments on: Selling A GPL product is a bad idea

By: adam

adam — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:35:02 +0000

I still pay the ten bucks though. I look at it as supporting the software and the development of it.

that’s why I thought it worth it for x-chat. it’s just a shame i didn’t realize the money didn’t go to everyone involved. It basically amounts to a suggested donation.

By: drmike

drmike — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:48:45 +0000

PHP-Nuke does it as well. To obtain the most recent version, you have to pay ten bucks to download it from the main site.

Of course you can also go to one of the hundreds of PHP-Nuke support sites and download it from there for free. It is GPL’ed and can’t be prevented.

I still pay the ten bucks though. I look at it as supporting the software and the development of it.

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By: adam

adam — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:15:45 +0000

yeah, I knew there was a lot of noise about it. I didn’t realize he didn’t get permission from patch submitters.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:24:39 +0000

X-chat was free. The person compiling it then decided to make it a paid program. There was a lot of noise about it – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xchat – hence the silverex version.

It was more it had to happen rather than might have happened.