OpenEuphoria

RE: Euphoria will be Free and Open Source!

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Sep 20, 2006
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Jeremy Peterson wrote:
> 
> Jason Gade wrote:
> > 
> > Not quoting Derek Newhall's excellent post...
> > 
> > While I have sympathies with the GPL for the reasons cited by Ray Smith, the
> > points brought up by Derek are the reasons that I suggested that RDS release
> > dual license GPL and commercial versions of the language.
> >
> 
> Well, I would be totally against this.  
> And Rob has already said he would do the exact opposite.
> Quoting his original message:
> >  I have finally decided to make Euphoria completely
> >  free of charge, and completely open source.
> 
> > Other advantages:
> > - since it's free it will gain more users
> > - I won't have to waste time on marketing, advertising,
> >   processing registrations, sending new download instructions
> >   to people who lost them etc.
> > - I (we) won't have to maintain both free and registered versions
> >     of things
> 
> All very good reasons too.
> 
> Jeremy

Why would you be against dual-licensing? It would still be just one version.

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