>> I definitely want people to be able to create
>> commercial, shareware, and freeware applications.
>> Because I'll be one of the people doing it!
Alain : This is my case as well, as everyone knows well by now.
> Uli : PD allows this. PD is the ultimate free license.
> Everyone owns his copy of a PD program completely (but
> not exclusively).
Anthony : Yes, but I'd like to keep rights to my work. If, for nothing
else, to prevent it from being claimed by someone else.
Alain : Yes. and we want to have some kind of control over the
different versions of OpenCard. There should be one official version
mandated by us.
> Uli : Well, icons could be shipped as separate
> libraries and the toolbar icons would have to be the
> same license as the OC application.
Alain : OK.
> Uli : *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.
Alain : Why the graphics ? Why just the graphics ?
Anthony : I agree. I think the only exception we should make is for
documentation. You should be able to print them in your manual.
Alain : Limit everything in OC to use-only with OC, except its
documentation? Is this what you are saying, Anthony ?
> Uli : 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.
Anthony : 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.
Alain : Yes but maybe not its resale ... SEE below.
Anthony : 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.
Alain : I am not dead-set against it. Other outfits have done similar
things, like RedHat for example. But, in my opinion, it is somewhat
opportunistic to re-package something free and sell it, particularly if
the person doing the reselling had nothing to do with its development.
Hence, I suggest that we limit the resale rights to those who have
participated in its development.
Anthony : PS -- Watch out -- ResCraft is alive, again.
Alain : What does ResCraft do ? Why should we watch out for it ?
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