Arno Garrels wrote:
Code that is published as/in ICS was mostly contributed because the authors
would have written it anyway and they decided to give it away as freeware
under the license of ICS. The principle is simple, if you use ICS in your
applications, you should make your own improvements or bugfixes public.
If you do not it's your turn, but then you are not belonging to the
people who are interested in moving this project forward.
(not everything in the world is a business model!)
Arno,
Although I agree with your philosophy, I believe that he was referring
to Francois himself releasing ICS as open source. Although I'm sure
that only Francois can answer that question, I think that it is
appropriate to make a few important distinctions:
1. ICS is not open source as in Open Source Software, i.e. it does not
adhere to any of the OSS licenses. It is freeware (or more specific,
postcard-ware :), that Francois happens to offer with source. He
reserves the right at any time to stop this and to prevent anybody else
from distributing the source. As a matter of fact, Francois does not
currently give permission to distribute ICS source by anybody except him.
2. Francois does not generate money from ICS; as far as I know, he
originally made money from the MidWare components, which were the
commercial, industrial-strength components. He gave ICS away in return
for a postcard, but he wasn't expecting to make a business model out of it.
dZ.
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