Re: Linux Torvalds on GPL2
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:42:44 -0700, Ray Smith
<guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
>Pete Lomax wrote:
>> Have you (or anyone else) seen my licence?
>> I haven't had any feedback at all on it yet.
>
>Hi Pete,
>
>I haven't looked before.
>I think that is a nice license ... BUT ... how is this differnet to Rob
>selling the eu source?
You are not forced to buy anything, unless you want to protect your
source code or otherwise install a prebuilt exe without source.
>(The can run compiled programs on your own PC is a nice idea ...
>but I imagine it is illegal for someone to register then make an
>interpreter that doesn't have the "tired to this machine" restriction?)
Correct. If your app uses opBind or opInterp then you are forced to go
open source, or perhaps reach some kind of agreement with me.
I feel obliged to point out that using the open source back end as per
OOEU's exec() would not be a problem.
>Can someone add extra features and re-distribute it??
Of course, as source, optionally with automatic rebuild on install.
I may well put together a package to encourage just that.
>I think it's a nice license for a "psuedo" closed source app.
Thanks!
Regards,
Pete
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