Re: [Wxdevide-devs] code license consern

[Esteban A. B. <nab...@ya...>]

Not to disrupt the issue, but I may actually back Mal's idea here.I'm also for open source here, and while I wouldn't care if any one of the contributors want to make money out of wxDevIDE (I don't think I would be interested on such thing myself), I find it of "bad taste" when some non contributor jerk takes open source software, and sell it as if it was their work. PearPC->CherryOS comes to mind.As I said, my idea would be:1- Open Source the project.2- Let 3rd party people "improve it" and redistribute it. Sell too, but only with our approval. If any project member wants to sell something too, good for him/her.3- Use a license that lets us use 3rd party libraries without having to change their respective licenses (so not GPL).As I understand it, the problem for you guys seem to be that there is no license that complies with all that. Let me research Creative Commons a little more, as mentioned before, I think it works that way. At least give it another
 chance before voting final.If Creative Commons (or other one) indeed lets us do all that, but you still don't care I would accept wxWidgets license too.

--- El lun 13-oct-08, Malcolm Nealon <m.n...@wa...> escribió:
De: Malcolm Nealon <m.n...@wa...>
Asunto: Re: [Wxdevide-devs] code license consern
A: re...@al...
Cc: "wxDevIde Developers" <wxd...@li...>
Fecha: lunes, 13 octubre, 2008, 11:47 am

Tony Reina wrote:
>
>
>     For me personally I have no concerns what license the project
>     remains under or whether someone runs off and makes a fortune. I
>     have never had any pretensions to be Bill Gates and purely code
>     for my own enjoyment. If someone else makes money out of it well
>     good for them.
>
> I agree 100%. In my view, anyone can do anything they want with my 
> code so long as they don't interfere with my ability to do anything I 
> want with my code (Viva Liberte!).

OK beaten into submission.

>
>
>     Therefore maybe you need a license that makes the source code
>     open, any changes need to come back to the developers, you can
>     compile the code for your own use, but any binaries created from
>     the source code cannot be redistributed for commercial gain,
>     except by the say so of the production team. Then would enable the
>     majority of end users to do what they want, use the product, fix
>     bugs and make changes, but keep the end product as ours.
>
> I don't know any existing license which does this. If we really want 
> something that will only allow us to make money, then we'd need to 
> come up with a custom license. That would mean we'd need a lawyer to 
> write it. Otherwise, I doubt it would hold up in court if it were 
> actually tested.
>
> So my vote is still with keeping the wxWindows licensing and handling 
> the creeps by shaming them publicly. If a creep sells our binaries for 
> $10,000, we can always sell them for $100 and drive him out of 
> business. ;>)
>

Then I'll side with the majority, so I assume that this means wxWidgets 
License.

Mal

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