Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> I don't think I understand. What is SCSL? What control of the source
> do you need? You, being the author, are free to set and break
> whatever licensing policy you invent, even if the policy is GPL. What
> more control do you need?
>
It's something like "sun community source licence". I'm not sure /exactly/
what it says, but the bottom line is that you can't get the source unless you
register for it, and then you can't distribute your implementation until its
passed a test of some sort (which would involve returning patches to us and
getting us to test and agree to it first, including agreeing to let us
distribute the update in this case).
It's all a big mess. I want GPL. Unfortunately, the people who (might) be
paying to employ research assistants etc don't, so I'm having to play
politics. I'd rather be coding 8-( They will want us to license the code to
external companies, who will no doubt demand we don't give away any copies, or
even make it available... you know, the usual closed, anti-progress, corporate
argument. They already have us on the optical score recognition work the
group (not me) has done: we aren't permitted to let that out without charging
a "commercial rate".
I am working on it, but it's slow. As I said, I'd rather be coding.
Nick/
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