Arnould Nazarian makes some magical things to make me read } 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.
Ah ah! There is the culprit!! (Only joking, it was a good move to get access to the source). } } 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? True. } } 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) ? We could have the whole sources in a CVS repository, with a mass of branch of development (and a headache for the poor registrar, or any one wishing to make a release: That aspect of Linux development is always forgotten by the Pro-Linux users: there is a hell lot of kernel branches, some really instable, some more stable (some are for development, some are for 'public release') and part of a fulltime job is for the 'registrar'(Linus ?) to incorporate patches from one trial branch onto the 'release' branches (then compiles it, and check that it works). I'm not sure we would have any volonter for such hard work with SMSQ/E, excepted maybe some would-be-dictator. I currently just like the work as done by Wolfgang.
