At 2:12 PM +0200 on 7/7/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
>>I definitely want people to be able to create commercial, shareware, and
>>freeware applications. Because I'll be one of the people doing it!
>
> PD allows this. PD is the ultimate free license. Everyone owns his copy of
>a PD program completely (but not exclusively).
Yes, but I'd like to keep rights to my work. If, for nothing else, to
prevent it from being claimed by someone else.
> Well, icons could be shipped as separate libraries and the toolbar icons
>would have to be the same license as the OC application.
>
> *But* I think we should limit icons and other graphics in OC to use only
>with OC. That is, no one except the creator of the icons should be allowed
>to use the icons outside an OpenCard stack, e.g. by copying it into a C/C++
>program etc. The graphics *shouldn't* be PD.
I agree. I think the only exception we should make is for documenation. You
should be abvle to print them in your manual.
> This is not selling OpenCard to me. That would be selling the CD-ROM and
>the cost of creating it and maybe a bit more to balance for downloading it,
>including enough to pay everyone involved in creating the CD. But you
>shouldn't be allowed to put OC alone on a CD-ROM and then to charge people
>for every copy of OC they make from this CD. I.e. a license for OC is
>always for an unlimited number of users.
Ok. I see what you meant. Yes, I agree that OpenCard must be licensed
freely; certainly, once you have a copy, you can do with it as you please.
I think you should be able to charge for the CD, for the floppy, for the
download time -- for whatever media it is distributed on. And I think you
should be able to charge -- and ought to charge -- every last cent the
market will bear.
PS: Watch out -- ResCraft is alive, again.
