[Arianne-general] Re: Another License Problem

[Methedras <oth...@vo...>]

Hi,
    There is a libraire under BeOS called Santa's Gift Bag . It's so great 
that everyone use it more and more. This librarie is under a license the guy 
did: 


License

The source code, object code, libraries, and the other components of Santa's 
Gift Bag are being made publicly available and free to use in freeware and 
shareware products with a price under $25 (I believe that shareware should be 
cheap). For overpriced shareware (hehehe) or commercial products, please 
contact me to negotiate a fee for use. After all, I did work hard on these 
classes and invested a lot of time into it. That being said, DON'T WORRY I 
don't want much. It totally depends on the sort of project you're working on 
and how much you expect to make off it. If someone makes money using my work, 
I'd like to get at least a little something for my contribution to that 
profit.

If any of the components of Santa's Gift Bag are is used in a shareware or 
commercial product, I get a free copy.  The source is made available so that 
you can improve and extend it as you need. In general it is best to customize 
these classes through inheritance, leaving the original Santa's Gift Bag 
source code unmodified, so that you can take advantage of enhancements and 
bug fixes as they become available. 

Feel free to distribute any components of this archive, but you are required 
to keep the documentation and license with it.  If you wish to distribute 
modified source, also feel free to do so, but do so in such a manner that it 
is very clear what was modified, why, how, that it is not an official Santa's 
Gift Bag release, and you are also required to keep the documentation and 
license with any modified versions.

I can be contacted at:
br...@ti...
Thank you for using Santa's Gift Bag, and enjoy!



            I think it has some good points as it respects:
                            _ The distribution as much as you want.
                            _ The modification of the work with 
redistribution.
                            _ It avoids shareware to use it just like that.    
                            _It keeps the name of the authors.
there are things to change/add/remove but I think that's the kind of things 
Djagg & Brian wanted to apply (I repeat: I THINK... )
    regards,
                            olivier
    Moreover, we could allow any GPL'd project to use our wourk, it just have 
to say "Well, the original work comes from Arianne's Team www.arianne.cx . I 
s that possible ?
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