Hi Sam, > While far from interested in code obfuscation, the ability to write > 'headless' words would free precious Flash for more applicative code.
:noname is made for headless words. A source code obfuscater should be made outside amforth itself. IMHO a trivial exercise for a search/replace oneliner. > I am concerned about part of what you appear to be implying here. Do you > consider Forth words loaded into the AmForth environment to constitute > 'derived works', and hence subject to the GPL? Definitely. Any program includes the amforth system (GPL'ed). So it is a derived work (amforth is not *L*GPL). But IANAL... > That would make me uncomfortable, as someone who favors the public domain > and BSD/MIT style permissive licenses for my own work. I'll never understand the *BSD people. They give away their work for free and could not even pay the energy bill for their development systems (happened just recently in Canada). *I* value my work much higher, and I've expressed earlier how I see my payment: Code, Success stories and cooperation/acknowledgement. I do understand, that others have different goals in mind, but such are the rules. (I considered the Affero-GPL, it would be nice too). I'd say that a man-year of work went into amforth by now, so feel free to start your own forth. With a more permissive license, if you like. It's doable and it's fun. And a lot of work. And up to you. > I'm also unclear on > what interpretation of copyright law would support this. IMHO any. Regardless whether European or (North-) American. Even China could accept it (now). Don't worry, I won't go to court, but don't expect anything helpful if you run into problems. I can be very angry... Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
