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LimeWire Pro under GPL
LimeWire Pro under GPL
Posted Jul 11, 2005 23:48 UTC (Mon) by bignose (subscriber, #40)In reply to: LimeWire: Open source brings commercial success (NewsForge) by rm6990
Parent article: LimeWire: Open source brings commercial success (NewsForge)
You might want to confirm that. It's not inconcievable that the COPYING file was unintentionally packaged with both "Basic" and "Pro". An easy test: Exercise your rights under the GPL to ask the vendor for the source code to LimeWire Pro, and see how they respond.
If you *do* get the source from them, then there's any number of ways they can still make money. Most of them involve actually giving value each time the money is paid (as opposed to collecting rent for pushing bits around, as proprietary software models do).
If you get nowhere, then they're misleadingly distributing LimeWire Pro under the GPL; call them on it.
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LimeWire Pro under GPL
Posted Jul 12, 2005 11:58 UTC (Tue) by nedrichards (subscriber, #23295) [Link]
I believe it is distributed under the GPL, since all the code is in the CVS etc. and other clients that use Limewire as a base (like Acquisition on OS X) have the pro features. Frankly a lot of the value is in providing compiled binaries, especially for platforms where people are unused to that sort of thing (like Windows) and of course support, which you're only going to get if you bought the thing from them.