Dear Murshed, I am writing you regarding your bnwebtools and its new license.
As you know, we use your bnwebtools in Ankur's E2B dictionary project. Frankly, your tool has been extremely useful to the project. I was considering an upgrade of bnwebtools to the latest version. However, your new license terms (v 2.1.0) made me extremely concerned about your tool. In Sourceforge project page http://sourceforge.net/projects/bnwebtools the mentioned license is GPL. On the other hand, in your site http://bnwebtools.sourceforge.net/ the mentioned license is "GPL only for non-commercial use". In my understanding, both these licenses are incompatible with each other. GPL doesn't prevent any commercial use. It seems to me your new license also violates Sourceforge terms of service as they allow only OSI-approved license for code hosting. http://alexandria.wiki.sourceforge.net/Terms+of+Use However, the main concern for me is, we allow distribution of the dictionary project under GPL. This includes database as well as client program (CGI scripts) which currently includes your Bnwebtools inside it. So if someone wants s/he can use our dictionary project to take out the bnwebtools and use it for ANY purpose including commercial as per as GPL. This will bypass your intended license completely. Does it mean, we cannot use it in the dictionary project anymore? It will be really helpful if you could clarify about the new license. Given this issue affects Ankur's dictionary project, I am marking this email also to Ankur-core. Thanks in advance for your response. Regards Golam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
