I am sorry, Fred, but licensing IS important. I have been following the redbase thread on the forums, and it is simply amazing that Thomas now has asked hsqldb to change the copyright notices distributed with hsqldb, and the license wording has been updated in his page.
I don't want to be stuck developing and supporting a product which I may be prevented to use on the future when another "license update" occurs, as it may happen with the redbase guys. I am not defending their practice of basically selling a free product, but one needs CLEAR rules and they can not change in the half-time. I started using hsqldb and we comply with the current license, but this license issue needs to be clarified once and for all. Apparently the current wording is not complying with Thomas initial license for 1.43, and I take this from his post in the forum. I need an answer, or I can not take the project seriously. Refusing to discuss this point is not an option IMO. Regards, Mauricio Piacentini Tabuleiro > Again I am not going to discuss license issues or let it disrupt the > development of the code. Michael Cannon will hopefully be back in January > and follow that up. I am just stating some facts regarding this: > > Our license has not changed since the beginning of the HSQLDB project. Our > web site clearly states at the top of the home page that it is a > continuation of Hypersonic and has had a clear and prominent link to the new > home page of Hypersonic since this page was introduced. > This is in addition to the link to the Hypersonic project that we had from > the beginning. > > The Hypersonic project page contains a news item dated 26 March 2001 by > Thomas Mueller that mentions and links to HSQLDB. The Open Discussion Forum > for HSQLDB contains a recent thread discussing a commercial product based on > our code. In it, Thomas states his opinions relating to the licence. We have > read Thomas's contributions and would always respect his opinion. _______________________________________________ hsqldb-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hsqldb-developers
