On Sun, 2 May 1999, Alain Farmer wrote:
> Someone : I would prefer the GNU "copyleft" form, as it protects our
> interests fully, and it ensures that OpenCard and it's derivatives stay
> OpenSource.
>
> Alain : A very laudable goal. We want OpenCard and its derivatives to
> remain forever OpenSource. For me, the term "derivative" denotes a
> specialized instance of our OpenCard system. I am not talking about
> end-user-apps created with OpenCard as an authoring system.
You should be very careful about this. GPL is like a virus and if
even one scripted function from the development UI is required at
runtime (like MetaCard's ask and answer dialogs), everyone that uses
it to build a product has to distribute full source code to any
scripts they build *and* any externals they develop! Password
protecting scripts or distributing precompiled scripts would be
prohibited.
The library GPL is not quite as invasive, but you'd have to pay a
lawyer to modify it such that it can be applied to an application (I
don't know of any application that uses it now).
Regards,
Scott
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MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
