Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > "Would it be good idea to put a notice with licence agreement in each > frontend which says that "this software can be obtained with no cost, if > you have paid a large sum you may have been fooled"?"
The idea is good. Putting it "with the licence agreement" or "in license agreement" as you seem to be suggesting may be a problem -- that could lead to the notice being understood by naive readers to be a part *of* that licence agreement. Modifying the GPL is expressly disallowed, of course, but naive readers do not necessarily know that. So I'd say yes, adding a notice to this effect is IMO a good idea. But, please be very careful to do so in a way that does not make it look as though this statement is in any way a part of, or a modification to, the license agreement. A separate tab in the Help -> About dialog, titled "Payment", or "Cost", or something like that, maybe? I think providing readers with some positive action that they can take if they feel they have been deceived is a good thing to include in this kind of notice. If it helps, I seem to remember having seen software (I'm not sure whether it was GPLed though) with notices that said something like: "This software can be obtained at no cost, and can be freely copied. If you paid a large amount for it you have probably been deceived. In that case, please (a) let us know in an email to <exam...@example.com>, including how and where you obtained the software, and (b) please give away copies of this software to as many others as you can." Jonathan _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page