----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Hines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2002-06-27 08:55 Subject: Re: Using the modified code..
> 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... Well, that's not a *law* I have... but in general, I "release" anything I work with. If someone has released the code into the public domain, then I have no issues with using it. My biggest barrier, since I tend to use VB a bit, is that a lot of VB authors who distribute their code on the Internet have something like this: "You can redistribute this code in compiled form, but not as source." That means development would stop with me and I would need to continually track which code came from what source. I don't need that hassle, so I just avoid their material. > 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 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
