Re: Calling a program without knowing the parms

Well, of course one reason to license is to limit your liability.

But I also think one important reason is to protect your ownership of your
own code. It would be annoying to find out someone else has licensed your
code and you must now either pay him royalties or beat him in court.

Chris Rehm
javadisciple@earthlink.net
If you believe that the best technology wins the
marketplace, you haven't been paying attention.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil" <sublime78ska@yahoo.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 11:22 PM
Subject: RE: Calling a program without knowing the parms


> With all this trouble, why bother to license it at all?  Is there reason
why
> you'd want it licensed?
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
> > Behalf Of Scott Klement
> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:00 AM
> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Calling a program without knowing the parms
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, James David Rich wrote:
> > > Please use the GNU GPL with open projects.  It makes integration with
> > > various distributions of linux much easier.  It also protects your
work
> > > and everyone else's.
> >
> > Let me first say that I *REALLY* do not want to get into a "religious
war"
> > about open source licenses, as frequently happens when this topic comes
> > up...
> >
> > Having said that, however, let me make a few quick points regarding
> > open source licenses.
> >
> > 1) an RPG program is unlikely to ever be integrated into a Linux
> >     distribution.
> >
> > 2) Microsoft and other software companies are very against the use of
> >     the GPL due to it's "anti-capitalist" nature. (By contrast, they
> >     do not have a problem with the BSD license, or other non-copyleft
> >     licenses)
> >
> > 3) Way too many people will blindly use the GPL "just because Linux
> >     does".  You should take a serious look at the different licenses
> >     around and decide WHAT's RIGHT FOR YOUR PROJECT.
> >
> > For me, in particular, I find these phrases of the GPL to be
troublesome:
> >
> >   "You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole
> >    or in part contains or is derviced from the Program or any part
> >    thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties
> >    under the terms of this License."
> >
> >    "If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when
> >     run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive
use
> >     in the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement
> >     including an appropriate copyright notice . . ."
> >
> > These are a bit strict for me.  Instead, I use a GPL-compatable version
> > of the "BSD license".   (Tho, GNU says I shouldn't refer to it as a BSD
> > license for fear that it'll confuse people)
> >
> > If I'm going to give you software for free, I'm not going to make money
> > on it anyway.  Why should I spitefully restrict you from making money on
> > it?  My main goal is to help people (and hopefully encourage them to
> > help me in return).
> >
> > In the AS/400 (iSeries) world, where EVERYTHING is based on business
> > needs, the use of the GNU GPL could very well be a major reason not to
> > use your software.
> >
> > All I'm asking is that you weight the alternatives before jumping onto
the
> > GPL bandwagon...
> >
> > See these links:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
> > http://www.privacy.nb.ca/cryptography/archives/coderpunks/new/1998
> -10/0032.html
> http://www.softpanorama.org/OSS/license_classification.shtml
>
http://interactive.wsj.com/fr/emailthis/retrieve.cgi?id=SB992819157437237260
> .djm
>
> (sorry if any of those links wrap to the next line...  if they do, you'll
> have to cut & paste them to make them work)
>
>
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