I have many many portable apps with vmware's thinapp, but is it legal to distribute these programs?:
1. 7-zip(one file)
2. Audacity beta (one file)
3. CCleaner (one file)
4. steam (game thing) (one file)
5. Teamviewer (one file)
6. Utorrent (one file)
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all of these programs are free, none have been modified at all from their original state (except obviously crammed into a single exe file) and they all have proper credits or creator info and/or company stuff somewhere in there.
The question is: can I share them with people?
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CCleaner, Steam, TeamViewer and uTorrent are not open source and may not be repackaged or redistributed in non-original form without permission from the publisher. Their respective EULAs (End User Licensing Agreements) do not give you such permission (in fact I think most expressly forbid it), so repackaging any of them and redistributing them is illegal.
7-Zip and Audacity are under the GPL and can not be combined with other software which is not also open source under the GPL or a compatible license (BSD, MIT, etc) without permission from all copyright holders (all people who have contributed code to both apps). As Thinapp is not released under such a license (it is closed source), it can not be combined into an EXE with these GPLed apps and then redistributed legally.
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...but I can still use all my apps for personal use?
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What everybody in this thread (and the other one too) has been trying to tell you (nicely) is that what you want to do is NOT legal.
If you choose to do illegal things for others or for just yourself, it is still illegal.
Please don't try to get us to help you do illegal things, and please don't try to get us to make you feel better about doing illegal things.
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Using and modifying these apps for your personal & noncommercial use should be under fair use, but since nobody really does care until you become a cybercriminal and they discover you (hope you won't become one :P).
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It should be legal for personal use, though redistributing is not.
Also, this website has portable versions of 7-zip, Teamviewer, AND UTorrent, so you can just use those, CCleaner has a portable version available on their website, and there are beta launchers on the forums for the Audacity Beta and Steam in PAF format, which I will link to below.
Audacity Beta: https://portableapps.com/node/23068
Steam: https://portableapps.com/node/22494
Hope that answers your question.
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all I wanted to know (being curious about this, I have only recently started making portables) was is it or is it not, legal to A) redistribute my own, unmodified apps (apparently not) and B) can I use them for personal use (maybe).
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