On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Michael Fair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since we are revisiting this conversation, I have two
> questions:
>
> 1) Whatever happened to our tentative decision to use
> the Public Domain license?
> This seems to have everything we are committed to.
> You can always have a "free" version available to you.
Seems that way to me.
> 2) It was never really explained all that well for me why
> the LGPL was an unacceptable solution for the engine
> code base. The problem with the GPL is that parts
> of the code, namely the run time interpreter, become
> a derivative work of OC when you create a standalone.
> If the run time interpreter was LGPL then you could
> combine it with proprietary solutions, namely
> standalones without problem. You just couldn't
> modify and redistribute the engine without also
> meeting the terms and conditions of source distribution.
Because LGPL includes the requirement that you distribute the library
separately with object files of your application so that the user can
relink it (which of course would also allow them to easily defeat any
sort of security you put into your application because they could
replace the secure routines with their own). Worse, you have to
*tell* people this, which means that it would be impossible for
commercial developers to produce applications without disclosing that
it was built with "OpenCard", which is something they probably usually
don't want to do.
> - -- Michael --
And from another message by [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> 1) Whatever happened to our tentative decision to use
> the Public Domain license?
> This seems to have everything we are committed to.
> You can always have a "free" version available to you.>>
>
> well, yeah, but lets say I want to make ClarisOffice 2001, I wanna give VB
> for Apps a run for it's money, so I integrate NuCard with ClarisOffice. It's
> in the NuCard consortium to have this done (publicizes nuCard and allows
> nuCard to work with ClarisOffic), and it couldn't be done with a PD license
> because if nuCard was PD, ClarisOffice would be too.
You're confused: GPL and LGPL are virus-like in this way. Nothing of
the sort would occur with a PD license (or with any of the other
open-source licenses, for that matter).
Regards,
Scott
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Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com
MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
