Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI

2014-01-14 Thread Thaddy
This is good advice. It happened to me once or twice ;) that a certain company with ever changing names used my sourcecode and licensed it under their own closed terms because i included the term: use as you like. If the owner wants that not to happen,, choose any of these licenses mentioned.

Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI

2014-01-14 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Thaddy schrieb: It happened to me once or twice ;) that a certain company with ever changing names used my sourcecode and licensed it under their own closed terms because i included the term: use as you like. Better: free for private use. If the owner wants that not to happen,, choose any

Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI

2014-01-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: If the owner wants that not to happen,, choose any of these licenses mentioned. This is really important. Without huge legal fees I can't get my intellectual property back Sorry, that's nonsense. You still have all rights on your own software, no need to get

Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Tomas Hajny wrote: On Tue, January 14, 2014 11:27, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote: Well, all open source projects need a license, otherwise they're not very useful legally speaking, so he'll need to pick one. If he doesn't care what people do with his code he can use a

Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI

2014-01-14 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Tue, January 14, 2014 15:38, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: If the owner wants that not to happen,, choose any of these licenses mentioned. This is really important. Without huge legal fees I can't get my intellectual property back Sorry, that's nonsense. You

Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI

2014-01-14 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: If the owner wants that not to happen,, choose any of these licenses mentioned. This is really important. Without huge legal fees I can't get my intellectual property back Sorry, that's nonsense. You still have all rights on your