Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:

> > However strange it may seem to you, TT himself would allow Open Source.
>
>No.

Don't try to spread this legend, you're in opposition to your own mails. 
Also Tony Tebby himself wrote me, that you proposed Open Source. He even 
asked me if not the Linux model would be better, in case a different model 
is required. It is also absolutely clear that Tony Tebby would have allowed 
distribution for free. This way your proposal would have turned into 
something that could be vaguely understood as an Open Source license. Not 
because Open Source software must be free of charge, but because that would 
remove the need for separate commercial agreements outside your "license", 
and gives all authors some guarantee their code will be *available*.

Open source is not only GPL, so if my GPL idea was not what Tony Tebby had 
in mind, this does nowhere mean that he would not have allowed Open Source. 
However I will wait for his answer, to see clearer.

Peter


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