Brian Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > On Jan 30, 2007, at 8:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> I'm curious. >>> >>> The original Venster was published under the MIT license. >>> >>> Why have you published Venster-CE under the GPL license? >>> >>> Alan. >> >> Well, I thought that the most important was to use an OSI compliant >> license and I personnaly prefer GNU/GPL. I'am no license-expert, so if >> you see any problem with this, tell me, and I could change the >> licensing. >> >> Alex. >> > > Hello Alex, > > > I was under the impression that MIT is quite OSI compliant. I prefer > MIT/BSD licensing and have published a great deal of code under that > license (http://techgame.net/projects/Framework). > > I personally believe there is a great synergy between commercial and > open source entities; for example, all the code we have created as > expressly open source were completely funded by commercial entities. We > make it as free as we can (MIT/BSD) for commercial or non-commercial > use. The GPL typically bars commercial use because you can't keep any > part of your system proprietary. > > Basically, If a toolkit is GPL, I typically won't use it when doing > development of my own stuff, although there are lots of other licenses, > such as MPL, APL and others that are less restrictive that the GPL. > > That's my 2 cents :) > > - Brian > > > >> _______________________________________________ >> PythonCE mailing list >> PythonCE@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
Hello Brian, Well, since I'm a student, I didn't really take into account commercial use. I ideally thought that GPL gives a lot of freedom for free or commercial development. If it encouranges python ce users to choose venster as their gui toolkit, in free or commercial products, I will release the upcoming version under a MIT license. Anyway, have you tried venster-ce ? I'll be glad to have comments or (constructive :-) criticism ! Alex. _______________________________________________ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
