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(Unverified)Apr 23rd 2006 2:42AM

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Will someone PLEASE just view the GPL.

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

It's really not a difficult read.

It states as clear as day that a piece of software liscence under the GPL can be:
Sold at a *price* -- but whence sold that copy can be copied and redistributed freely. HENCE FREE.
The code can be redistributed, changed, distributed again and so forth. This is what free means.

So, now you know this. You know that any site can obtain the Limewire source code, compile it and distribute that compiled software freely. This is not the first (and isn't the last) piece of software to be compiled and given out by a different party. For example; X-Chat. It is free on Linux, but sold at a price on Windows. You can also obtain *COMPLETELY LEGAL* compiled copies for Windows by generous people who took the time to do so.

I had to say something, I've seen multiple blogs with incomplete definitions of *this-and-that-legal*.

So yeah, it's okay to download that free limewire version.

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