- From: Markus Krötzsch <markus.kroetzsch@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:04:15 +0000
- To: Damian Steer <pldms@mac.com>
- CC: Mark Wallace <mwallace@modusoperandi.com>, Atanas Kiryakov <naso@sirma.bg>, semantic-web@w3.org
On 25/02/2011 13:36, Damian Steer wrote: > On 25/02/11 13:23, Mark Wallace wrote: >> The license agreement link seems to say that SwiftTREE is free to use >> and re-distribute as part of SwiftOWLIM: >> >> "SwiftTRREE is licensed for use free of charge as an integral part >> of SwiftOWLIM. Re-distribution of SwiftTRREE in any form, except as >> part of the original SwiftOWLIM distribution package, is strictly f >> forbidden. " >> >> I understand this to mean that you can even provide SwiftOWLIM as part >> of a distribution to a customer. >> >> Mark Wallace > > Yes, but when Markus used the term "free software" I took him to mean > [1] and not the "free beer" [2] sense. > > If SwiftOWLIM requires SwiftTRREE it wouldn't be free. Err, free [1] :-) > > Apologies to Markus if I misunderstood his initial request. You are right, that was what I originally meant. Some of our users care about the software being free as in [1], but many might still try some beer if its offered to them free of charge ;-) Markus [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software>
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