Hi,
nein, natürlich hat er nicht recht. Nur weil etwas als "Freeware" deklariert ist, darf man damit nicht "alles" machen, angefangen vom Urheberrecht das auch bei Freeware greift (zumindest in Deutschland ohne weiter Hinweise), kommt noch dazu, dass der Urheber die Möglichkeit hat eine Lizenz zu wählen unter der er seine Arbeit veröffentlicht.
Die Zeos stehen unter der GNU - allerdings mit einer Einschränkung (zu finden in der Copying.zeos Datei):
[zitat]
This is the file COPYING.ZEOS, it applies to the ZEOS Database Components
(source files) and packages (packages) distributed by members of the
ZEOS Development Team.
The source code of the ZEOS Libraries and packages are
distributed under the Library GNU General Public License
(see the file COPYING) with the following modification:
As a special
exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules,
and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice,
provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms
and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module
which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this
library, you may extend this
exception to your version of the library, but you are
not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this
exception
statement from your version.
If you didn't receive a copy of the file COPYING, contact:
Free Software Foundation
675 Mass Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
[/zitat]
Grüße