On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 23:28, C Bobroff wrote: > In this case, I just don't want to think about the > people who will download the new Koodak for free and sell it for a nice > profit. Not fair to the Farsiweb team nor the person who first made > Koodak.
But fair if, say, the developers allow it to happen. Have you ever heard about 'gift cultures'? ;-) > I wonder why you don't put "not to be sold for profit" in the > license? Let's talk about a real situation. Some people interested in Syriac developed fonts and labeled them the same way (free to redistribute, ...). Now both MS Windows and Red Hat Linux ship with those fonts. Now everybody can see Syriac if the software supports it, there is no longer a need to download special fonts, it comes with the software itself. The licensing was open enough even for Microsoft to add it to their Windows XP that they sell for profit. It was benefical to Microsoft (who didn't pay a cent for it), but it was also benefical to the Syriac users. roozbeh _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
