[ql-users] Re: Re: [ql-users] £ 0.00 to spend! (1st attempt)

[Roy wood]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On 15 Mar 2004 at 17:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Time for an offer: I could possibly be persuaded to try and integrate my
drivers into SMSQ/E for the whole range of QL style machines, by a simple
act of wisdom: Place SMSQ/E under the GPL. (I have no problem to accept
modifications to allow QPC remain commercial.)
I know that this issue has come up before.  There are a couple of QL 
programmers
that refuse to support SMSQ/E until it is GPL'd.  There are others that 
feel that Tony
Tebby should still be compensated for his work.

The only middle ground that I can see is for the QL community, as a 
whole or part,
get together, pass the hat and buy the rights to SMSQ/E from Tony 
Tebby.  At that
point the new "owners" of SMSQ/E could then release SMSQ/E under the GPL.
<SNIP>
If I recall correctly this is what Tony Tebby did not want. If you all 
wind back to when it all got heated a while ago he said the current 
situation was what he wanted to happen. In truth, if you look at it, 
SMSQ/E has improved greatly since the licence came into being. Several 
long standing bugs have been removed and new features added. I have sold 
5 copies of SMSQ/E to new users since it has been operating under the 
licence (which is five more than I expected) so I am not making a 
fortune out of it and I have updated a lot of people to the latest 
version with added manual pages and new disks all for a 1.60 pound 
copying fee so I have probably made a loss in it. I am however, very 
happy with the way the licence works as see no reason for it to change 
just to let people who are so blinkered in their attitude that they will 
not work for something which is not exactly how they want it to be.

I am off to bed after a hard evening mixing sound which was infinitely 
better than reading the same arguments over and over again.
--
Roy Wood
Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030    fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501
web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk