Sorrx for the late answer but found your message blocked in my incoming queue...
Am 2008-08-20 22:25:37, schrieb David Martínez Martí:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 19:53:46 Arc Riley wrote:
> > At the risk of repeating myself, I don't believe this technical challenge
> > of reliably hosting code poses a serious hurdle to compliance with this
> > license.
>
> The problem with this license is, that anyone that tries to use and/or
> modify it must distribute it to third parties. I don't think that can be free.
Even the GPL allow you to ask for a reliable fee if you want the
sourcecode...
I am working with a small group of Ex-Militaries and IT specialists on a
Game which generaly under GPL version 3 but can not distribute, because
we can not distribut a SOURCE tarball of 52 GByte (90% are videos in
original made generaly by my self) and arroud 14 GByte of binaries/data.
So IF we open the Game (it is a strategic/action Game like "Fleet
Command" and about real conflict szenarios), and someone want a copy of
the source he/she has to pay a fee for the sourceode on HARD medias like
DVD20 or BlueRay and of course to pay the time we need to produce and
verify the medias before distributing...
So FREE distribution is not posibel in any kind...
Please note, that my friends am me want to get a 19"/42U Rack @Hetzner
in Germany and there, wee have to pay 0.29€ (Euro) per GByte traffic...
Offering FREE downloads would leed like a DDoS... (15€ per source dl)
> What if someone uses that software using a network over WAP, or GSM
> tecnology? (Mobile internet conections are slower and limited by Mbytes)
And then why do you want to offer public access to the server?
There is some logic missing...
> Wait. You're thinking about "public" source code, not free software. Free
> software can be modified, used, distributed and selled without making it
You suld think about the phrase: "Free software can be modified"
I know MANY software which is FREE but can not be modifiesd because
there is no sourcode available.
> public. Don't think that someone will like your idea about sharing the
> code in public servers. I place my own code in public servers, I like that.
> But there are other people that doesn't like that.
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Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
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