"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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>   Their response said: "I understand from your description that you are a
> proprietary software developer. If I am wrong in this understanding,
please
> correct me. [...] We offer our services by paid consultation to non-free
> software developers."
>
>   I understand this to mean that if I had lied they could perhaps have
> answered my questions free of charge.

Wouldn't the advice then be inapplicable to your case?

>   And yes, they explicitly refuse to answer the questions:
>
>   "If you do not want to pay for this service, I can only suggest
> you carefully review the resources we provide about licensing at
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html> and refer to your legal
> counsel."
>
>   Of course they are entitled to this. It still somehow feels wrong.

Why? They promote free software. Not free legal services, nor free lunch.
IOW, I don't expect them to provide me with a free lunch if I knock on their
door.

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