[Wxdevide-devs] Fwd: Licensing

[Tony R. <tb...@gm...>]

Here's the video I was talking about. I think the guy really does a good job
of explaining the major licenses out there. (
http://robinsontechnology.com/blog/2008/06/11/overview-of-open-source-licenses/).


Just to be clear though: nothing is creep-proof. With a pure GPL license,
the creep can still make an executable of the IDE, burn it to a disk, and
sell it for $1 million per copy. The only thing that is required is that he
make it clear that the source code is GPL'd and that the buyer can get a
copy of the source code if he wants (for free).

So my point is that even with the most open-source of the licenses, a true
creep can make money off of us. In my opinion, the real point of licensing
is to make sure that the creep can't claim that the source code is now his
property and block us out of our own project.

-Tony


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tony Reina <tb...@gm...>
Date: Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Subject: Licensing
To: wxdevcpp developers <wxd...@li...>


I was going through the definitions for the various open source licenses and
came across a nice video (
http://robinsontechnology.com/blog/2008/06/11/overview-of-open-source-licenses/).
This guy is giving a short lecture of the major open source licenses and
their differences. The first 20 seconds makes him sound like an idiot, but
after that he really does a good job of explaining the licenses.

I figured some people might be interested.

-Tony