[AuckLUG] perst license conflicting statements

[Martin Baehr]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:01:23PM +1200, Guy K. Kloss wrote:
> http://www.mcobject.com/perst/
> """
> McObject Open Source Databases are available under a dual license . Under the 
> GPL, you may download and evaluate the source code free of charge and you may 
> use McObject Open Source Databases free of charge in a non-commercial 
> application (one that you do not charge money for or that is not used 
> internally by your business,

the GPL does not prohibit internal use.

http://www.mcobject.com/perst/perstlic.shtml
contains the phrase:

"This General Public License does NOT permit incorporating this software
into proprietary or commercial programs."

this is simply wrong!

that page contains the complete text of the GPL (and even better, it
also contains: 

"you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
later version. "
)

so it appears they really mean to use the GPL (and not only pretend by
having a non-free license and still claiming to be free software)

however, either they do not understand the GPL or those above quoted
statements are intentionally misleading to make you buy their other
license.

greetings, martin.
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