>>>>> "Alex" == Alex K Angelopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alex> Well, for all the good that reading license documents usually does, Alex> thinking of doughnuts is A Good Thing. I don't know if it's a Good Thing, but that is a typical response for non-lawyer types, myself included. :) Alex> My usual approach to licenses for source code is a variation on FUD. If Alex> it says "GNU", I do whatever I want and just make sure that I Alex> redistribute the complete modified source if I'm redistributing the Alex> application. If it says anything else, I try to avoid it. That's unfortunate, because there's a lot of good stuff out there distributed under non-GPL licenses that you might be missing out on... For anyone looking for non-lawyer-speak comparisions or details of the various OpenSource licenses, here's a few links: http://zooko.com/license_quick_ref.html http://yoyo.org/~pgl/lqr/ http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html http://opensource.org/licenses/ Chuck -- Charles K. Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Principal Scientist at ReQuest Technologies Inc (http://www.ReQuestTech.com/) "You tell him and I will smack you. I will smack you like a bad bad donkey, okay!" - Pepe in 'Muppets From Space' _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
