Hello,
I was there in Eindhoven when there was a small meeting about what to do now that Tony Tebby was ready to show the source code of SMSQ/E.
I was the first to speak and I said that IMO 15 years of work of TT should be legally protected so that he could benefit from the development of a possible commercial product.
This opinion materialised into this licence.
I never thought that it would start such strange discussions between QLers and that some of them would even leave.
Now 2 questions:
Q1: If SMSQ/E was distributed under this GPL licence and someone would take it to develop a successfull product, TT would have no rights on it. True or false?
Q2: If SMSQ/E was free, would the current situation be very different (ie would those who left still be with us/would there be new developers and application software) ?
Arnould
