On 22 May 2002, at 23:08, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
>(...) > > yes. And you neglect the fact, that by the nature of accepting > royalty payments you have a SPECIAL AGREEMENT with that particular > developper so why did you deny that? Oh, that's waht you mean by a special agreement. If the licence provides for the mechanism, it isn't a special agreement, is it? > Unfortunately, in order to be effective this special agreement > would have to grant that developper special rights over the licence. > For example someone requesting royalty payments could never > agree to a licence change that would allow free distribution > of binaries so you would have to ask this developper each time > you would wish to change this license. This is a privilege > that "normal" developpers will never have and I find this > *extremely* unfortunate, Oh, why is that - from copyright point of view, everybody has the same rights. > effectively the copyright of SMSQ > is tainted in a way that can't really do much good to anyone. If you have several people collaborate on a project, it seems right to me that each one retains copyright over his part (the licence explicitly states so). > > There is a questio here, that still needs to be resolved,a nd it > > concerns Perter's wish to "buy out" the Q40/Q60 binaries. > > As I understand it, Peter would "buy out" the official version as it stands now. > > What about new versions as and when they come out. Would they > > still fall under this "buy out"? > > What if the new version, to which something wonderful might have > > been added, wasn't a free upgrade? > > don't add wonderfull fancy things to the core OS, I can't think > of any project that would > - be large enough to be justifiably doable only commercial > - could not be done very easilly as loadable addon. OK, so anything commercial could also be done as a loadable module. No problem here. > If you can think of something (anyone, not just Wolfgang!!!) > then throw it in for discussion, otherwise please clarify the > licence in the way that absolutely no added royalty payments > will occur. > Yes, some input would be welcome. Wolfgang
