We have been distributing widgets with every release of DynAPI. That makes them part of the DynAPI, which in turn is licensed under GNU Public license. =;^)
I believe some basic widgets are an integral part of DynAPI. With out them, the core files are an over engineered piece of JavaScript functions. I wonder how many people would continue to use DynAPI without some basic widgets? This will destroy DynAPI. We will lose our audience. I feel very strongly about this. =;^| -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Melvin Sent: November 27, 2001 11:36 AM To: Laszlo Teglas; Dynapi-Dev@lists. sourceforge. net Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] DynAPI Documents - Structural Candidate 1 actually, the widgets area NOT part of the DynAPI. Thus they are not covered. Only changes made to the 'core' ie; dynapi.js,dynlayer.js are covered. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laszlo Teglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dynapi-Dev@lists. sourceforge. net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:32 AM Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] DynAPI Documents - Structural Candidate 1 > I have started to create the documents we have been talking about. > My initial work can be viewed here: > > http://www.interlog.com/~ccsi/DynAPI-Docs/docs/ > > This is just the structural layout that we agreed on. A lot of work is > required to complete it still. What I am looking for is feed back on the > structure, not the minor details at this point. Does this document structure > make sense? Is this something that our users would appreciate. > > I used frames as agreed to cut down on maintenance of the docs. This way the > docs are independent of the interface. > > Now to some disturbing news: > Dan has recently announced, "But note, for 2.6 I'm re-assuming ownership of > the widgets I write - no one seems to really want to maintain other peoples > widgets anyway. I've rewrote them and will be selling them (for commercial > use, free for non-commercial use) separately from DynAPI. This of course > won't stop others from using 2.6 for their own widgets." > > Widgets are an integral part of DynAPI. With out them, the core files are an > over engineered piece of JavaScript functions. To think that the next > release will be without a free set of widgets is chilling. A lot of us like > to fool around with DynAPI as "non-commercial" users, but this does not put > food on our tables. Most of us are developers on contract who use Open > Source products such as DynAPI to create websites. When we charge our > customers we charge them for creating the layout of there sites and put some > content in it, we don't charge them for using DynAPI. That would be against > the GNU license. > > Dan I appreciate everything you have done for DynAPI, you have put a lot of > work into it, but if your intent was to make money off of this work, then > you should not have relieved your work as Open Source. The very reason you > have all these followers is because DynAPI is Open Source. I have used it > for that very reason my self. And in order to repay the DynAPI community for > all their work, I decided to pitch in some of my time to create > documentation. I am not sure, if I want to continue doing that if at a later > time DynAPI will be hijacked for profit. > > Furthermore, I am not a lawyer, but I believe what you are doing is against > section 2c of the GNU General Public License under which DynAPI is > distributed. It reads as follows: > "2) You may modify your copy or copies of the Library or any portion of it, > thus forming a work based on the Library, and copy and distribute such > modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you > also meet all of these conditions: > c) You must cause the whole of the work to be licensed at no charge to ALL > third parties under the terms of this License." > > Dan I know you are putting a lot of work into this. We all appreciate it. > But you can't change the terms of the license on the fly. There are a lot of > developers who have donated their time to this cause and accepted the terms > of the license, which forbids them of making a profit on ANY modifications > they contribute to the Library. > > With regret, but not as enemies, > > > NanoFace =;^( > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dynapi-Dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
