Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: What does "free" mean, eh? (Re: Scareware) Message-ID: <14476@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 7 Mar 90 20:01:28 GMT References: <14010@s.ms.uky.edu> <125816@midas.UUCP> <635@magnus.Hotline.Com> <34812@watmath.waterloo.edu> <10612@hoptoad.uucp> <18111@rpp386.cactus.org> Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 24 jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes: |In article peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: |>FSFware is like the shareware with the scary copyright notices, except that |>it's also surrounded with an odor of sanctity... because the donations they |>require are less tightly connected to the almighty dollar. But the bottom line |>of GNUware is no less coercive than the "scareware" that John is complaining |>about. |the only difference between FSFware and "Freeware" is you can't steal |FSFware and pretend you wrote it. that's about the only practical |difference. This is 100% off base. GNUware has far more restrictions than most freeware, and the license strongly resembles a virus. It is quite coercive, to the point where I won't use it in my distributions. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean *** "Well, heck's farr, Jim, it gives mah computer sumthin' to do when *** Ah'm out brandin' capacitors." -DM