Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > Fabio Tranchitella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Hi, >> I'm the maintainer of phpldapadmin, a web-based tool for administering >>LDAP servers. Actually testing provides phpldapadmin 0.9.4b, which is >>available on SourceForge and is released with GPL license. >> >> Some days ago the upstream maintainer has released a new version, >>0.9.5, which not available on http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net but >>only on http://www.phpldapadmin.com. In order to download it, you >>have to register into this website and choose "phpldapadmin for >>Home Users". >> >>Here there is the text grabbed from that page: >> >>""" >>While phpLDAPadmin costs 49.95 for commercial download, we are providing >>it for free to home users. If you purchase the commercial download, you >>get the added benefit of support from the original developers. >>""" >> >>Here phpldapadmin seems "free as beer", so you can use it at home but >>not for commercial purposes. However The upstream tarball contains a >>LICENSE file which reports the GPL license. > > It sounds like it is Free Software, but the author (or some > distributor) has decided to charge for support. It might be polite to > contact the author himself and ask whether the home download is > actually licensed to you under the GPL, including the ability to > modify and distribute the code.
And if so, please ask them to make it clear that the home-use version is not only for non-commercial use, but simply for those users who don't need support, such as with the following text: phpLDAPadmin is Free Software, and you may download an unsupported version for no charge from our site. However, you may also purchase a supported version for $49.95, and you will get the added benefit of support from the original developers. - Josh Triplett
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