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Selling Freeare Applications?
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Northern California--SF Bay Area
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Is it okay to make a business of selling freeware application packages? Or is it against the law?
Just wondering.
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Chris K.
White MacBook and iPod Nano 3rd Generation
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Don't hold me accountable for jokes-I have a lousy sense of humor!
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Senior User
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Just needed to post again (forgot to subscribe)!
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Chris K.
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Don't hold me accountable for jokes-I have a lousy sense of humor!
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Posting Junkie
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Check the license agreement of each software program to see if the author requires his or her permission to distribute the app in any bundle for which there is a charge. Even if there's no such clause, it's still probably good form to contact the authors for permission anyway. I know that it used to make me really angry when people were selling BootCD on eBay without my permission back in the day.
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Where can I find the license if I've already installed the program.
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Chris K.
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Don't hold me accountable for jokes-I have a lousy sense of humor!
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Originally Posted by cwkmacuser 
Is it okay to make a business of selling freeware application packages? Or is it against the law?
Just wondering.
In general, for apps labeled "freeware," it's a no-no. For apps with open-source licenses, it's usually permitted, but still generally considered kind of skanky.
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Chuck
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Yeah, if it's freeware it's definitely meant to be free.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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