[PanoTools-devel] Commercial vs Free Software

[John S. <su...@pa...>]

Hi List,

It might be worth putting a list together of software that use Panorama
Tools in a commercial product and those that are part of the open source
community. All parties should be represented as it's been 4 1/2 years of
'blind' development with Helmut being MIA.

I don't think anyone wants to see this license issue being used as
punishment but the GNU is well documented and everyone using the software
knew the rules of use going in. Helmut didn't leave Pano12 on anyone
doorstep to take care of. There may have been a good reason he released the
source as GNU and moved on.

My vote is to is to keep Panorama Tools as a standard GNU open source
project which helps the open source community. I always thought Helmut was
on the side of the open source community with all the crap he took from
Ipix. To give into commercial use now seems like it was all for nothing. I
agree with Daniel. Why contribute if your efforts are going to a company
with no obligation to give anything back.

John