Hi Laurent,
Laurent Godard wrote:
Do not expect any contribution from the community (at least from
myself) until this is not clear and the SDK is not free. Final
document licence but also tools to build the final result have to be
clearly stated as free
you mix again two things.
Why "again" ? This is the second time you employ this term regarding
some of my writings
i think you have mixed the general SDK with the DevGuide (which of
course is shipped with SDK). Most of the SDK is free (LGPL) and only the
DevGuide has a different license. So contributing to the SDK (examples,
reference docu, ... ) should be clear with exception of the DevGuide.
The latter one is of course a problem and i will try to figure out how
we can solve this problem.
Stay tuned until next week because i will be on vacation for 4 days.
I just state that this is not clear (at least for me or new commer) and
my (its) concern is to provide free content
The SDK is totally free and open source.
great ! under what licence ?
See for example the license of the public and free available StarOffice
8 Programmers guide for Basic
(http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-0439/6n2s7rhur?l=en&a=view)
Only
the DevGuide is a Sun document which of course is made available for
free as well and which is part of the free available SDK.
so the rendering of the DevGuide is under an other licence ? Am I right ?
yes, but do you really want to render the guide yourself? Or do you
simply want to use it?
Ok it would be nice if the guide would be open source but Sun has
decided to provide it under a special Sun documentation license.
So is it free or not ?
Where to find this licence ?
Is this rendering mandatory as the devGuide content seems to be free if
i understand correctly
You can read it but if you want use it in your own publications, if you
want to translate it, ... you have to ask Sun for permission.
My concern is not to ask Sun to make things free if it do not want; My
concern is to state the context so that contributors know where they are
going. Signing the JCA is ok for me but contributors have to know the
details
of course i agree here
Juergen
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