Sam, > Matthias has the only opinion which matters, and is on record as strongly > opposed to this sort of license.
You seem to ask why? These licenses are like one-way roads. From the vendor (me and a few other people) to all. The vendor gives away all he has and gets nothing in return. I mentioned the energy bill problem for some BSD flavour. This kind of freedom is not desirable. > This is all especially sad because Forth is small and getting smaller. > Meanwhile, I'm excited about the potential and future of the language, > especially in microcontrol. That makes serious and successful projects even more important. e.g. Jens' TCP/IP stack is something I admire. I can study it, I can modify it (or the underlying core system) and I can publish my changes. My internal system got a few code snippets that improve the performance of his code by 20%, and I'm not yet finished. The same code should improve SD-Card performance as well. I'm not interested in dish washers per se, but I may re-use code parts for a robot. And I do not want to discuss legal terms. All code is under the same license and everyone can and has to use it. The GPL is made for exactly this. 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
