> The next time someone feels the need to publicly call G-WAN's (1-page) license "weird" or "insane", look at what they sell and who they get their revenues from. Unlike for G-WAN, what they offer is not free for all.
They have redefined the word 'free' into a fine mist if they expect you to believe Apache and nginx are not free. They're doing something I've seen done before; oddly, it was mainly being done by Usenet trolls.
Usually people map onmousedown,click,oncontextmenu, etc. events or some permutation there of to return false and have an alert that say's something to the effect of "no copying!"
You can easily defeat those by mapping whichever function to null on your javascript console. ie:
document.oncontextmenu = null
In an interesting twist they've actually used css. That is every vendor permutation of.
user-select: none;
In GWAN's case (using Firefox) the rule was:
p, h1, h2, h3, h4, ul, ol, legend, label { -moz-user-select: -moz-none; }
Every time I read something off that webpage my mental voice uses my Japanese "Engrish" accent to read it. So I can't say that I was really surprised when I saw that. (I'm actually getting the vibe that the lead developer may have lost a few of his marbles.)
At the same time it totally took a shotgun to the guys credibility when he implied that projects like nginx aren't free but G-WAN is.