>Maybe, but I still haven't seen a reasonable proposal for how
>standalones would be treated if you use a GPL license.
Scott,
I intended to have CopyLeft w/o GPL. Isn't that possible?
>If you require
>source code distributions, no commercial developer will touch it.
Good point.
>If
>you don't, you have the "UltraCard" problem I discussed earlier. If
>all you want to require a copyright notice (a la BSD), then you should
>use a license for which that is a key component (such as BSD) rather
>than the GPL.
You're right; I think source distributions are out. We can't require
people to send along several megs of source with their 1MB app. This might
not be as troublesome with something like Linux, which by itself is very
large already, but for something like OC which we'd like to keep below the
1000k margin it won't work.
So, my proposal would be:
"CreditWare", that is, you may use compiled sources, sell them etc. as
long as you give credit somewhere visible (about screen, read-me file,
manuals), and the sources may not be sold (not ruling out distribution, but
then they only may charge for the CDb and S&H and those things, not for the
Actual code).
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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