OpenEuphoria

RE: Version 2.4 and beyond

• Posted by Kenneth Riviere <joker at riviere.ws> Feb 14, 2002
• 517 views

Bernie Ryan wrote:
> 
> Irv:
>    But if you develop applications in Python or Perl.
>    I thought that you could not charge for them or copyright them ?
> Bernie

That doesn't sound right to me.  I think if you took the original source 
for Perl or Python and used that to make a custom version of either 
language, then they might insist that the terms of the license is such 
that those changes should be made public under the same terms as the 
original code.  However, code written in either language is separate 
from (though dependent upon) the open source interpreters.  I don't 
believe that there is a requirement that your applications which use 
either of those languages require you to make them public.  Now, it 
might be that some of the packages which are available could have such a 
restriction, but I think that it is the same situation.  If you modify 
the package (as opposed to simply including it) then they might require 
that you make the modified package available.  However, I doubt that 
anyone would expect an application using standard packages be made 
freely available just because they use those packages.

Of course, I could be wrong!    However, if you search for perl 
applications on the web (cgi applications are quite common) it is not 
hard to find applications for which fees are required for usage (maybe 
only for commercial use of the application) and I would expect that this 
would have drawn the ire of the perl community if all perl applications 
were required to be made freely available.

-JoKeR