My View on the License issues (PD only..here's why)
Hello again,
In this case
there has already been a precedence set...code has already been
contributed with the authors setting their own standards for
how the code THEY submit should be used.
I see no reason why this should be changed, and so if someone
wants to contribute their own interpreter, for example,
they should be able to specify their own requirements just
as in the past with other contributed code.
Most people only ask that their name be mentioned in the
derived works anyway. If others want to ask for more,
then they have to realize that their code *may* not be used
at all, for anything. If they dont ask for more, then they
have to realize that their code may be used as part of a
project that makes money and they dont get any of it, but
then how would the profit be divided anyway, especially if
there were more than one contributor? That would get hairy.
Public domain is the only way to go, and if contributors
want to post their more specific demands on *their* contributions
then let them do so. If they want to modify the source and
contribute that, then let *them* decide what they will allow
on their code, as has always been done in the past.
This gives the secondary author the right to choose any licence
they care to, and puts no demand on Open Eu. If they dont want
*their* code to be purely public domain, then they can specify
whatever they want. If they dont want to release it, then
they wont anyway.
This of course means that Open Eu must be released with the
free'est licence possible, so that no one has any reason
not to use it!
I, however, also believe that it should be mandatory to have to
mention in an about box and in the doc's that Open Eu was used
either all or in part to build the project.
Also, if anyone thinks ALL software is some day going to magically
become free then all i ask is for proof: get Microsoft to start
giving away ALL of their software for free. When that happens,
i will probably agree to give all my software away for free
AND ALSO with the requirement that anything they use it for
must be free also.
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