On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, J. Scott Hildebrand wrote:
you can download it from the ircam website, OR you can pay 500 euros for it. what the hell??!?!?!?
You can buy GNU straight from the FSF for 5000 bucks. Now which of jMax and GNU is the freeest?
Well, both are covered by the GNU GPL, which states:
" GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 [...] When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things. [...]
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As a result, "free for noncommercial use" licenses are incompatible with the GPL, because the GPL forbids the combination of such clauses with their license.
But IANAL.
Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju