Forwarded answer from Peter to my last mail, posted with his agreement. I leave it at that. --- Marcel wrote:
>But if I asked for the Qx0 schematics (the equivalent of my software >in the hardware world), would you give them to me? Yes of course, as soon as my turnover breaks even with my expenses, and I have actually worked for free, not for loss. Before that point I would probably hold them back, because commercial competition could (theoretically) cause me direct loss. When I write software I have no expenses, so this can not happen. I will, for example happily give QLwIP away free and open, when it has reached the necessary maturity. > > BTW it would have been possible to place Q60 SMSQ/E under the GPL > > without affecting the commercial status of QPC at all. > >Would only have worked for the very first version. As soon as I want >to integrate one simple fix somebody else did to the GPL version I >would be in trouble. I don't think so. QPC is separated from SMSQ/E anyway. And the problem of GPLed templates can be overcome by accompanying the GPL with an appropriate definition of linking. So, if you liked it, QPC could even use all of a GPLed Q60 SMSQ/E (68060 emulation? ;-) and remain commercial. > > You make money from QL work. I don't. > >As a matter of fact I have 4 digit EUR expenses for my QL meeting >travels. My QPC earnings reduce that to, hm, pretty much the same 4 >digit value... If it is so, then keeping things commercial makes no sense at all. BTW your enormous amount of QL travelling seems more like a hobby, than commercial costs :-) Peter
