If the License is too restrictive and doesn't carry with today's fast paced information age, then what is there stopping people to go back to the current license holder and ask it it could be changed?
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Marcos Cruz <[email protected]> wrote: > En/Je/On 2011-12-07 10:48, Daniele Terdina escribió / skribis / wrote : > > > You can use SMSQ/E with Q-emuLator, > > I know, but you have to purchase it (the Gold Card version). Am I right? > That's what I meant. Thanks to the QLPAK format, currently Q-emuLator is > more > suitable than QPC2 for distributing QL software for non-QLers, but with > almost > all limitations of the original machine (speed, screen, QDOS...); well, you > can use a Minerva ROM, what is an improvement. > > > there would be at least three clauses in the current SMSQ/E license > > preventing users from redistributing SMSQ/E for free with their SBASIC > > code:The SMSQ/E binary can only be distributed by resellersResellers > need to > > provide support for SMSQ/EResellers need to pay 10 euros for each copy to > > Tony Tebby In other words, to distribute a free SMSQ/E runtime with your > > program, you would need to first register as a reseller (the easy part), > > cover for the 10 euros for each copy out of your pocket, and be on the > hook > > to provide SMSQ/E support even though you are giving it away for free. > > Thank you. I didn't rememeber the precise details, but I read about all > this > some time ago... > > ...and it still sounds plain Midle-Age to me :) > > In my opinion, such arrangement could work in the early 1980s (before the > Internet and before the free documentation and software licenses) but today > it's impossible to promote a software platform that way -- on even keep it > alive! No new users will ever come, no matter how potentially useful for > certain tasks (or for developing certain software projects) a modern QL can > be. > > Marcos > > -- > http://programandala.net > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
