OpenEuphoria

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

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.com> Sep 22, 2006
• 567 views

Ray Smith wrote:

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

  Has any open-source license ever been tested in any court ?

  Does it have the same weight of enforcement in every country ?

  Euphoria is used through out the world.

  What are the legal obligations of someone who develops the improvements.

  If the users find that open-source is not exactly what they
  thought it was there will be no way to go back to the way it
  is now. 

Bernie

My files in archive:
WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API 

Can be downloaded here:
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