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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Maybe not wrong for charging, but usually those "for pay" programs are plain-old verbatim ripoffs of Alf's tools with no credit given. The only reason they're not "wrong" is because the ripoff artists are protected by the fact that Alf's contributors can't really go after them even if an (L)GPL license had been affixed to their code.
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Yes, my meaning was more along the lines of "there's nothing wrong with charging for something that's worth the money". Eg I use a commercial video conversion program, even though I know I could get a free one, because I like the GUI of the commercial one. I agree with you that ripping off someone else's work and re-selling it without acknowledgement is unethical at best, and probably infringes copyright.