Clarifying some stuff.
My favorite license for software is the BSD license, but Forth IS NOT your
typical software package.
There are two meanings in "free", one is the "free" price and another one is
the freedom to "study".
The "free software" is more about the "free of freedom" than the "free" of
"you don't have to pay".
And Forth cross-compiler vendors are very unusual because they offer for sale
the source code of their compilers. Just try to go to any other SW vendor and
ask for source code! You must buy the full company if you want the source code.
So, the "free" as in freedom to study versus "closed commercial" software
debate does not hold when one talks about Forth.
And the commercial Forths have very reasonable prices. $400 USD for Swift
Forth X is the price of less than 20 Arduinos.
>From what I can infer (from very afar ) the position of Matthias is:
-This is not a debate about "free" versus "closed" software.
-This is about getting more Forth source code available for
more people to study, learn, change, and do more Forth source code, and more
Forths.
-For that purpose the GPL license is the correct one.
And I fully agree with him.
And many thanks for AmForth to all the AmForth developers!
Paulo Ferreira
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