On Wednesday 20 October 2004 08:19 am, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Hello. > > Navigating in the xchat site (debian package xchat), > > I found in http://www.xchat.org/windows/ these sentences: > > Q. Has the license for X-Chat changed? > > A. The Windows version is shareware, however, you may still > > download the source code, released under the G.P.L. > > Note: source is GPL, but for windoze binaries it is *required* > a registration.
This may be perfectly acceptable. Assuming that the sources for the Windows version include all the registration/validation logic, and are distributed under the GPL, providing a compiled binary of them is completely kosher. Of course, anybody with a compiler could hack out the time limit. Now, if the registration/validation logic is not part of those GPL'd sources, then we have a problem. -- John
