Re: [pcre-dev] website misnomer

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: David Grundberg
CC: pcre-dev
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] website misnomer
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, David Grundberg wrote:

> read the front page of http://www.pcre.org/ and I noticed this in the
> first paragraph:
>
>     "The PCRE library is free, even for building commercial software."

>
> I'd like to point out that this is a misnomer. It implies that other
> kind of free software is for non-commercial use only. Both BSD-derived
> and copyleft (GPL-like) are available for commercial purposes. As such,
> I suggest that the line be changed to read:
>
>     "The PCRE library is free, even for building proprietary software."


I have forwarded your message to webmaster@???, in case he doesn't
notice it here.

Philip

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Philip Hazel