Hi Lorenzo, Thanks for raising this aspect.
We can say that using any of the material inside another projects in source form will need a mention of the project's name. This doesn't seem very restrictive for anyone who'd like to bundle the whole project to another one (like a Linux distro, MinGW compiler or whatever). We can even mention forks. Of course this may not be compatible with some hard-core free software evangelists' views, although this isn't sure either because giving credit is high on their list in certain copyright related topics. My aim would be to get credit when parts of source and text is cherry picked and copied into other projects, certainly not when whole Harbour Project is used in any legally allowed form. My other option is to specifically prohibit certain types of projects or specific projects from using my work. I'll think about these. Given that I made exactly zero amount of money from Harbour so far, I certainly don't intend to employ an expert to solve this specific problem, rather I hope we can get to some conclusion here, or I may ask FSF for advice, or do the best I can on my own judgement. Brgds, Viktor On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Lorenzo Fiorini <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Viktor Szakáts <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > If you have any opinion on this, please add it here, before doing such > > action it'd be also nice to hear some xhb opinions. > > I understand your position but this can "potentially" create problems. > IANAL but distros like Debian and Fedora read carefully licenses and > this could exclude Harbour from official repositories. IIRC the fork > of xfree86 began with an issue like that: they wanted their name > mentioned. > > So I'd suggest to evaluate the issue with experts. > > best regards, > Lorenzo > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour >
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