I didn't hear about this before, but it certainly does not
surprise me. I don't know if people have thought about ways to get around
this. The GPL requires that the license be prominently displayed and that
the source code be made available. I wonder if this is enough to
discourage people from abusing it. Probably not.
John
tveldh>My hesitation about the no-price-restriction issue is that
tveldh>in the past, various unethical people have made money by
tveldh>downloading free libraries from netlib, putting thin
tveldh>wrappers on them, and reselling them to unsuspecting
tveldh>people who have never heard of netlib.
tveldh>
tveldh>I'd like to find some license terms which prevents this from
tveldh>happening to blitz.
tveldh>
tveldh>Perhaps dual-licensing is the way to go.
John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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