OpenEuphoria

Re: ESL license

• Posted by D. Newhall <derek_newhall at yahoo.com> Jul 24, 2005
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Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> Bernie Ryan wrote:
> 
> >> D. Newhall wrote:
> >>
> >>> Since we're on the topic of the Euphoria Standard Library, what license
> >>> are we going to release this under if any? I'm assuming that we're
> >>> going to use a completely free, open-source license that's probably not
> >>> copyleft or just release it into the public domain. Public domain would
> >>> probably be the best unless we want to maintain some control over
> >>> something (ie. "Modification is allowed only if the list of
> >>> contributors is not modified") or we want to explicitly declare no
> >>> warrantee on the library. Besides public domain I'd recommend the X11
> >>> or the 2- or 3-clause versions of the BSD license. If we want to make
> >>> this copyleft (meaning any modifications to the library source must
> >>> also be open source, generally a bad idea) I'd recommend a very weak
> >>> copyleft like the Mozilla license. Our other option would be to write
> >>> our own to cover explicitly what we want.
> >
> >
> > No one has the right to use another author's code in
> > an include file or program and then declare their code
> > to be under open-source license.
> >
> > This has been done in the past by some users on this list.
> 
> That's not OK, of course.
> For me it's no doubt that we should respect other author's licenses.
> 
> > A user can only declare code that they personaly have
> > written to be license in a given way.
> 
> What about using other code, which is "Public Domain", or say which is
> contained in EUforum posts?
> ( E.g. Ricardo and Derek had posted some neat code on this list, which
> I would like to see in ESL.  )
Technically, unless they say that their code is public domain we need to get
permission from them to use it since the Berne Convention states that everything
created by a person in coutries that agreed to the Convention is automatically
copyrighted by them. Luckily, Ricardo has put genfunc.e in the public domain.

Also, I think that we should put the Library itself into the public domain with
a statement that reiterates that there's no warranty and a request that you give
credit to the project and/or its contributors if you use code from it in your
project.