On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:26 AM, denstar <[email protected]> wrote:
> With the GPL (even the v3, I think, tho I'm far from an expert), CFE > can't say, use OpenBD as an embedded engine for nifty CFML-based > stuff. > That might not exactly be true--Alan would have to chime in on that (and looks like he did). With version 1.4 OpenBD is still GPL but basically has the equivalent of a classpath exception, meaning if I want to distribute an app with OpenBD as the engine, I can do that. I couldn't find the blog post of this but that was a change as of 1.4 I believe. For all intents and purposes, OBD is basically in the same boat as > ACF, as far as CFE goes. > Yeah, I really don't think that's true any longer, and at a minimum I think you'll find we're a bit more receptive to discussion than Adobe would be on that point. ;-) If I can distribute a CFML app I wrote with OpenBD now I don't see how distirbuting it with CFE is different, but as Alan said, depending on what specifically you're trying to accomplish I'm sure we can work something out. I still see the "user" in this context as a coder. How many end users > give a crap about the sources? Kind of by definition, the only people > who really care about source code, are developers. And lawyers, I > reckon. =) > The point there is users get bit in the ass even if they don't know what specifically is biting them. Should they care about the details of the licenses? I guess not. Should they care about having the freedom to do what they want with their computer and what's on it and have the peace of mind that no one can take this freedom away? Hell yes. Not enough regular Joes care about that stuff, but granted it's a hard sell *until* they get bit by someone like Apple telling them what they can and can't do with their music (just as one example). That's always a great "in" to start talking about free software in general. -- Matthew Woodward [email protected] http://blog.mattwoodward.com identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon official manual: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ Ready2Run CFML http://www.openbluedragon.org/openbdjam/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
