OpenEuphoria

Re: My View on the License issues (PD only..here's why)

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Sep 22, 2006
• 583 views

Ray Smith wrote:

<snip>

> Hi Al,
> 
> One of the main points you are missing is that many Open Source Licesnes
> ensure
> that all derived works stay open source.
> This means that all work done "in the euphoria system" will stay open forever.
> What happens if some bright spark makes a dozen really great changes to
> Euphoria
> and gets lots of people using it ... but doesn't open source his code.
> All of a sudden we are back to where we are now .. with 1 person controlling
> everything. (Obviously not quiet since anyone else is able to make the same
> improvements)
> Licenses such as the LGPL force all derived works to be open source ...
> meaning
> the open future of Euphoria is ensured

I consider this point important.

> ... while allowing anyone to write open or closed sourced apps "using"
> Euphoria.

I consider this point important, too.

> I'm all for putting a license on Euphoria which forces it to be open forever.
> 
> I don't see why people are worried about not allowing the actual Euphoria
> source
> code to be used in closed source apps.
> You can still use all of Euphoria to write as many apps as you want, sell them
> open or closed source to whoever you want to.
> You just can't change Euphoria itself and sell it to someone without giving
> them your source code.

I absolutely agree with you, Ray. Although I don't know the details of
all those licenses that have been mentioned here recently, I think the
two points above are exactly the bottom line.

Maybe we can think of an open programming language somehow like a
collection of mathematical formulas or so. It's important that it's
known in public. Scientists normally also publish their findings, and
this contributes to progress of education and knowledge in the world.
It's important, that Pythagoras' theorem and many other stuff is "Open
Source". Nevertheless, people can use this knowledge to create a product
and then sell this product. (And other people can use the same knowledge
to create another product and then give their product away for free, if
they like ...)

Regards,
   Juergen

-- 
Please excuse my flawed English. My native language is Euphoria.