A Lieberman wrote:

Charging a small fee for the database update service? Yes, that is
fair and the only way to guarantee that I am around to provide them...
You don't have to update if you don't want to.

Charging a fee no longer makes it free.

He advertised free flight planning software. It's very obviously free. As far as the
updates are concerned, nobody offers free updates. I have to pay AOPA and EAA dues,
and I have to pay taxes to the Feds -- that's what buys my updates there.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.