On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 15:46 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 17:02 -0500, David-Paul Niner wrote: > > Craig White wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 13:07 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > > > > > >>It may be somewhat better in ways, but it has an annual fee associated > > >>with it. > > >> > > > > > > ---- > > > maybe I'm stupid but all I have seen is GNU GPL license and have never > > > seen annual fee (I am presuming we are talking ipcop). Am I missing > > > something? > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > > > > > Whether or not there is an annual fee associated with ipcop I cannot > > say, but I do know that releasing software under the GPL and charging an > > annual support fee are not mutually exclusive propositions. > > > > Please forgive me if that was not what you were implying. > > > > Just an observation, > ---- > I wasn't implying anything other than what I said - that the software > carries a GNU/GPL license and I've never seen anything that stated an > annual fee to be associated with it - for any reason. If Jeff or anyone > cares to point out where these fees are mentioned, I would appreciate it > since I am using ipcop at a number of clients and have given up on > smoothwall for a number of reasons (and I note that smoothwall is > interested in support contracts and renumeration for extra features). > > I was thinking that Jeff was confused and wanted him to elaborate on his > point. > > Craig > I had understood that a friend of mine was using ipcop and there was an annual subscription fee for it. He is sys admin at a local school and they use a filtering set of rules that determine where the kids are allowed to surf, and where email can come from. It is possible I misunderstood him and there is a fee for additional firewall rules to maintain an up-to-date ruleset from somewhere else and that ipcop is just the underlying base system. I see from the web site that ipcop itself is free. > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. >
