Benjamin HKB - 2008-06-21

ScuttlePlus answers to many problems faced by Scuttle users as massive actions. It is maybe sad that ScuttlePlus is not a free tool but we have to accept their choice.

From a legal view, I know that they have the right to sell a GPL work (it is part of their freedom). However I am not sure they are allowed to "close" the code or change the license.

"If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you
distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it." (extract of GPL v2, http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt)