>If you give the three-year agreement to give a copy of them at cost, which
>is a pain in the a**.
Anthony,
I don't think so. There are few people which are interested in C++ source
code, especially among the users of a product like OpenCard. Also, how many
of those will actually want to change OC's sources, and will want to
explicitly order the sources? I think what it boils down to will be maybe
50 CDs commercial distributors would have to ship, and that's not that much
work.
Also, for that they'd get all the work we put into OC for free.
>I don't think so. Unless it is a shared library, of course (but that rules
>out any system with bad shared library support).
I was talking about the clause that you have to distribute this stuff with
sources or object to allow re-linking. This sounds to me like this would
allow that people ship the OpenCard sources and a statically linkable
library of their code, thus allowing everyone to change OC's sources and to
then re-link with the static library to improve the OpenCard half of the
product. I can't see any other reason why they'd put in that clause. And if
they intend it this way, I wonder whether a commercial company could ship
their OpenCard-based product just like any other SW company including a
note that people can obtain the code on a CD, and the static lib of their
proprietary code would be on that.
If that works, it doesn't sound bad. But I don't want any virus spreading.
OTOH we could drop all these licenses and release this as copyrighted
FreeWare and require people to give credit to us somewhere visible and
would also prohibit selling the sources or removing any copyright notes. Of
course, mis-use would be rather easy, but there'd still be people who'd
send in the sources.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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