Re: Open Source RPG

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Jim, and you are right. My main reason for opening my source
is to promote the same kind of information sharing as is evident in the
linux community. But a side benefit, I hope, will be that more and more
lower cost software will crop up as a result. This is something which
can only be good for the AS/400 in the long run.
One other thing about the license, you may modify the source and include
the compiled objects in for pay distributions of your applications but
the source must either be included or made available either freely or at
a reasonable distribution cost (shipping and handling etc.).

Jim Langston wrote:
> 
> GNU license says things that are not really applicable here.
> In particular (from what I remember about the GNU license
> agreement).
> 
> 1. You must provide the full source code for any program you
>    write that contain any GNU source.
> 2. You can not charge for any programs you write with source
>    code with the GNU license.
> 
> Open Source RPG does not have those limitations (and in this
> case, that is a good thing).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> David Gibbs wrote:
> 
> > Why don't you take a look at the GPL or other similar open source license?
> >
> > Check out http://www.gnu.org for information.
> >
> 
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