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Originally Posted by DumbleDur
AdultKing is threatening to undermine thousands of hours of Chris' work completed over many years by giving it away for free.
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It's already free software, the author made that decision years ago.
For what it's worth, I am probably not going to release it. However whether I did or didn't the author cannot escape the fact that it's already free software and anyone with a copy is legally entitled to sell it, modify it then sell it or give it away.
This isn't me saying this, it's the software license that says this:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-lic...pl-2.0.en.html
It's also worth noting that the author includes other people's free software in his own software, so he's basically doing the same thing. He is selling software that contains other free software that he did not write. He's entitled to do this because of the GPL.