[IRCServices] cpu consumption

egg at writeme.com egg at writeme.com
Fri Oct 29 22:23:21 PDT 1999


A quick note here.  This guy is selling GNU software...... Or in other
words he's doing something he isn't allowed to do....

Read http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/10/17/940203481.html
A small extract:
>Potvin says himself that it is no longer under the GPL. To cite the GPL: 4. 
>You may not copy, modify, sublicense, distribute or transfer the Program 
>except as expressly provided under this General Public License. He's also 
>only disting binary versions, with no source availible, and as he already 
>broke the GPL once why not twice.. take a look at 
><A  HREF="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html</A>    for more info .. else I think 
>its hilliarous to give 25$ for a channel mode, 3 commands when you can get 
>better than that for free (see all Elite hybrids)   IRCds has always been 
>free should always be free (Webmaster Inc. may do something like the same, 
>everyone knows) -UnrealIRCd coder.



At 22:04 29/10/99 , you wrote:
>Ok, Not to say anything bad about Elite because I personally love it's
>features. But as a note, it now costs $5.00 U.S. Which isn't much at all.
>Just noting this as most IRCDs are free.
>
>Just thought you should know.

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