On 08-May-2000 Mark Brown wrote: > ChkTeX is in non-free, but AFAICT from the license it's just GPL > together with a non-binding request for dontations to the author. > If the request were binding it would be a different matter, but as > it stands it seems that the license is OK for main. > > Am I missing something? > > Registration > > > It may seem as if `ChkTeX' was free, but this is not the case.
I think this is a case of bad english. He consistently states you do NOT have to give him anything. > Although there is no need to pay the author in order to get a fully > functional version of the program you should consider making a > contribution. You don't need to feel guilty if you cannot or do not > want to give me something in return for the work I have put into > `ChkTeX'. Show me that it was worth spending so much time listening to > users, updating, rewriting and enhancing this program. Your > contributions will provide the motivation for me to keep developing > the program. > This seems to be fully GPL compliant and free.
