Free software, as in speech, without Makefile

[David Gerard]

As "open core" goes, that's pretty blatant. The correct answer is that
it is not in fact a working piece of free software, and the claim to
be AGPL is a marketing lie.


- d.

On 20 March 2015 at 10:26, Paul van der Vlis <paul at vandervlis.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Somebody asks me to support a nice program with a AGPL license.
>
> It is free as in speech, but not as in beer. If you want to use it for
> more then 5 users, you have to pay a fee,
>
> The source is available but the Makefile is missing. The developer says
> it's to make it a bit more difficult to build it yourself. Eventually
> for removing the registration.
>
> It's a complex Java program what depends on many third party components
> (all free), so maybe it's not so easy to make such a Makefile, no idea.
>
> What's your opinion?
>
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis
>
>
>
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> http://www.vandervlis.nl/
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