OpenEuphoria

RE: Back to Bach

• Posted by kbochert at copper.net Feb 20, 2003
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Hi SR.Williamson, you wrote on 2/19/03 11:57:38 AM:

>
>Haven't been keeping up with Eu much recently. Am I correct in 
>understanding that Bach is dead=3F
>
I view Bach as an evoutionary dead-end and have pretty much ceased
further development.

>
>Not that I could get it to run anyway,
>
In about 40 downloads, I got not a single complaint, even
though I later discovered that they were non-functional.
I believe that the version now at catexa.com works. While
development has stopped, I do intend to leave it functional
so let me know.

> but I was very much interested in 
>trying it out - it had a couple of features I was very interested in 
>seeing in Eu.
>
>One thing it did not have though, is the ability to bind to the Bach 
>interpreter. Was this a problem with the licensing of the source=3F
>
Yes indeed. The source license prevents the buyer from adding
any features that duplicate or compete with the non-free features
of Euphoria.
 
>Is it 
>necessarily fatal, IOW, isn't there some way of licensing that could be 
>worked out so that some variations of the Eu interpreter could be sold=3F
>

The variations can be sold, but they are forever prohibited from binding,
tracing, profiling, or translating.
The final straw for Bach was the discovery that 'tracing' includes all
forms of debugging.

Karl Bochert

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