Michael Van Canneyt napisał(a):
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, L505 wrote:
What does 'advertise' mean in this context ?
Take a look at Stallman's page about FreeBSD license and how freebsd
"advertises
Berkley and California unreasonably" or whatever. Personally I'm more
of a FreeBSD
style guy and I might even switch to FreeBSD over linux because of
religion.
That page is a load of b*s*, because the LGPL requires just the same:
your program must show the LGPL.
Nitpicking pure style. It's the spirit of the license that counts:
Free software must remain free, and you must give credit where it's due.
The rest is food for lawyers without work.
Ugh, sorry to drop into this thread, but that reminded me of a problem I
have. I'm not much oriented in licences, hence I ask your help -- I
created a collection of FPC units, game-dev oriented, and I wanted to
release them to the public for I (and maybe only myself ^_^) think they
might be useful for others. After little tought I decided on LGPL - but
a friend of mine brought to my attention, that people using the library
will still be forced to open their sources if using my library -- which
is not what I wanted.
What I want is to allow true freedom of using that library -- eg. for a
closed-source commercial product too. The only thing I would like is
that I am given credit for my work -- if a game uses the libraries, I
want to be noted somewhere.
I heard something about the FPC RTL licence -- maybe thats the type of
licence I need? Also, what would you guys suggest?
--
At your service,
Kornel Kisielewicz (adminATchaosforge.org) [http://chaosforge.org]
"Come on, Kornel. 11 years and no binary? And it's not
vapourware?" -- Mike Blackney
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