On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 06:46:42PM -0500, Joe Taylor wrote: > We're not particularly interested in litigating nuances of wording. This is > just a hobby, for all of us. We're just asking for fair play.
As the author of some GPL'd software myself, and having been in similar situations, I can and do sympathise with your desire for 'fair play'. But as far as I understand it, the GPL3 does not permit 'further restrictions' or more correctly, allows the receiver of a GPL'd work to simply ignore them. >From section 7: '''All other non-permissive additional terms are considered "further restrictions" within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.''' The only solution it seems is to use a different license. At least for those parts you still consider to be experimental or in development. > Most people on this list know I'm a scientist, so I'll use a scientific > analogy. Copying or adapting our code (which is still in development) and > publishing the result is analogous to entering our laboratory when its door > was left open, copying the laboratory notebooks found there, and publishing > the results yourself before the authors have even finished their > experiments. This is NOT fair play. Indeed it isn't. But in this case nobody has surreptitiously copied your notebooks - you published them. Kind regards, -- FA _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
