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

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Bernie Ryan wrote:
>   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. 

There is no reason why Rob can't keep a copy of everything just before he open
sources it.
If he wants, he can do anything he wants with it.
He can sell it, make new closed source versions of it.
I don't beleive anyone else should have the right to do that.

Yes, some open source licesnes have been tested in court, www.groklaw.org I
think is the sire you are interested in.

Look at some of the open source projects out there and tell me we will have more
problems them them??

Linux, MySQL, OpenOffice, etc etc

Regards,

Ray Smith
http://RaymondSmith.com

P.S. I'm off for the weekend, see you all next week ;)

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