wxPython Licence vs GPL

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Thu Nov 24 18:12:52 EST 2005


"Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig at xs4all.nl> writes:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> <cut>
>> Well, they chose to make it available to others for reuse. But
>> software "unavailable to those who can't afford it" is better than "no
>> software at all"
> That I do not agree with, I think it depends on which your side of the
> fence you are.

Actually, I think I underspecified the statement. "Better for who" is
the question. No software is the same as software you can't afford. On
the other hand, so long as the price is lower than the cost of
recreating the software for someone, then it's better for society as a
whole if it exists at all.

      <mike
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