[Simh] (no subject)

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 11:50:18 -0400
Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:

> > On Sep 9, 2016, at 11:39 AM, Gene Irwin <girwin1215 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Another potentially pot-stirriing question:
> > 
> > What does the simh community think about the copy of simh in the
> > Google play store that is a pay for app and that it requires
> > another pay for AP to be useful (a terminal made by the same
> > author)?  
> 
> That's perfectly legitimate given the BSD-style license used by
> SIMH.  This is precisely the sort of thing that people choose to
> allow when they pick that kind of license (and choose to make more
> difficult though not impossible when they choose GPL instead).
> 
> Note that nothing prevents you or anyone else from releasing your own
> copy of SIMH for Android, either as a free app or otherwise.
> 
> Some people feel that open source projects should not be distributed
> for money.  If you feel that way, there are licenses that impose such
> restrictions (though those typically are *not* considered valid open
> source licenses precisely because of that restriction).  But in the
> projects I'm familiar with, not only is commercial distribution
> considered valid, it is often encouraged as a way to bring more
> motivated contributors to the project.

Indeed. I do wish the damn thing worked, though. I rather liked being
able to fire up VMS on my phone.