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Infima - a fraud thats refusing to die?

Posted by Sachin Garg on 10th January 2007 | Permanent Link

So I came across this press release by Infima guys about version 2.0 release of their archiver.

For those of you who missed the earlier story (go read it first), Infima 1.0 was nothing more than all the major command-line compression tools combined together under a buggy GUI, a massive copyright/gpl violation.

However, one change they made in July 2006 was that the archiver is now ‘freeware’. I wonder how that makes all this less of a fraud, or even legal.

4 Responses to “Infima - a fraud thats refusing to die?”

  1. Heliologue Says:
    January 11, 2007 7:54 am

    Remember that the GPL doesn’t have any prohibitions against selling GPLed products, so whether or not Infima’s nonsense costs money has nothing at all to do with the other provisions of GPL or BSD licenses. They’re still technically violating copyrights in a massive way.


  2. Sachin Garg Says:
    January 11, 2007 1:29 pm

    Yes, but I think they don’t know this :-)


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