On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Nate Straz wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:27:17AM -0500, Steve Siegfried wrote: >> BTW: For whatever reason, Bradley isn't using one of the common >> open-source licenses, instead it's an odd-ball "shareware" license, >> but free for "personal use." > > Shareware is far from odd-ball. It wasn't standardized like the > licenses are today, but back in the BBS days (pre-1994) just about > everything was shareware. You could try out a piece of software and if > you liked it, you'd buy it. Now that's morphed into the open-source > version and the commercial version. Maybe it isn't a coincidence that xv hasn't changed since 1994: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv Mike