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Re: I've issued Dynamic Draw Professional.
de Roger Johansson 06/25/2006 11:42
George wrote:
> However if you want to redistribute Dynamic Draw
> Professional, you need to get permission from the author.
Why do you want him to restrict the distribution instead of allowing
free distribution as so many other freeware authors do?
That can cause real problems some day in the future if the author loses
interest or loses his internet contact, and people want to keep on
recommending and distributing the program. If he follows your advice on
this point the value of the program as freeware is reduced, because it
becomes unsure if it will be available in the future.
By the way, he has already made this version of the program freely
distributable, but he shouldn't follow your advice for coming versions
either. It reduces its chances of being distributed and used.
If the author of Proxomitron had followed your silly advice that we
wouldn't be able to distribute Proxomitron and continue to use it
today.
(The author of Proxomitron died suddenly at only 36 years of age.)
You should ask him to consider making it open source instead, if you
going to get involved into his wishes at all, so others can continue
the development if he no longer can or wants to do it. That would make
the program live on forever.
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Roger J.