Andrew wrote: October 26th, 2023, 12:06 am
otismo wrote: October 25th, 2023, 12:17 pm
... License says a distro "fee"
can be charged...
What on earth are you talking about? Golly is a free app. (And why are all your posts double spaced? Quite irritating.)
Golly is an open source, cross-platform application for exploring
John Conway's Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata.
Copyright (C) 2005-2021 The Golly Gang (Andrew Trevorrow, Tomas Rokicki,
Tim Hutton, Dave Greene, Jason Summers, Maks Verver, Robert Munafo,
Brenton Bostick, Chris Rowett, Dongook Lee).
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License (see below), or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Web site:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/golly
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