OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux Torvalds on GPL2

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Sep 26, 2006
• 909 views

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:01:57 -0700, Ray Smith
<guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:

>Pete Lomax wrote:
>> ><a
>> >href="http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5627827397.html">http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5627827397.html</a>
>> >
>> Nice link. I love the quote:
>> As an example, Torvalds then cites his own, self-made, original Linux
>> source license, which basically said: "Give all source back, and never
>> charge any money". It took me a few months, but I realized that the
>> 'never charge any money' part was just asinine. It wasn't the point.
>> The point was always "give back in kind".
>> 
>> Probably because I've practically forced that 
>> 
>
>I agree ...
>
>hence reason I'm pushing for a LGPL type license for Euphoria.
>If Euphoria is released to the public domain or under a BSD type license it
>allows people to use Euphoria without giving anything back.
>
>People makig there own closed source versions of Euphoria "won't" promote 
>Euphoria usage long term.  
>
Have you (or anyone else) seen my licence?
I haven't had any feedback at all on it yet.

Regards,
Pete
http://palacebuilders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/euphoria.html
or more pertinent:
http://palacebuilders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pfeat.htm#licence
I'm sure you'll note this doc is not finalised, but the idea is there.