Re: GPL as an evaluation license

2011-04-09 Thread Meir Kriheli
On 04/09/2011 04:10 PM, Omer Zak wrote: > IANAL either. > > But what you are looking for is, in principle, dual licensing. > The providers of MySQL and Qt follow the same model. Their software > libraries are available under either GPL (with all the restrictions it > entails) or under a proprieta

Re: Tim O'Reilly in Tel Aviv?

2011-04-09 Thread Michael Shiloh
Probably there for Kinnernet, which was last weekend On 04/08/2011 01:00 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: http://twitter.com/#!/timoreilly/status/56248124934586368 Gabor ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/list

Re: some help in technical solution

2011-04-09 Thread Udi Finkelstein
Here is another very cheap solution: http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/ The small board has 25 digital I/Os and 7 analog for $16, and the larger one has 46 digital I/Os and 12 analog. If your competitors are close enough you can use one board for multiple inputs. Since you need to hook key presses which

Re: GPL as an evaluation license

2011-04-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011, Aviad Mandel wrote about "Re: GPL as an evaluation license": > It's true that I could try to write an evaluation contract, but the whole > idea here is to tempt the engineers to download my library and to try it > out. Why would they be tempted less if the code was available

Re: GPL as an evaluation license

2011-04-09 Thread Aviad Mandel
More clarification is due indeed... On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > I'm writing a function library in C which I want to sell licenses for, >> targeting a specialized industry. To make my entry point better, I plan to >> release it under GPL (as opposed to LGPL) so that

Re: GPL as an evaluation license

2011-04-09 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
2011/4/9 Aviad Mandel > Hi list, > > I know you're not lawyers, but I though you could help me with a GPL issue. > IANAL, but I'll try. > > I'm writing a function library in C which I want to sell licenses for, > targeting a specialized industry. To make my entry point better, I plan to > rele

Re: GPL as an evaluation license

2011-04-09 Thread Aviad Mandel
Sorry, I should have elaborated a bit more... On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > It is questionable whether merely dynamically linking to a GPL library is > enough to force your software to be GPL or illegal. As such, I would not > choose this license for that purpose. > >

Re: GPL as an evaluation license

2011-04-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 09/04/11 15:50, Aviad Mandel wrote: Hi list, I know you're not lawyers, but I though you could help me with a GPL issue. Indeed. IANAL. TINLA. I'm writing a function library in C which I want to sell licenses for, targeting a specialized industry. To make my entry point better, I plan t

Re: GPL as an evaluation license

2011-04-09 Thread Omer Zak
IANAL either. But what you are looking for is, in principle, dual licensing. The providers of MySQL and Qt follow the same model. Their software libraries are available under either GPL (with all the restrictions it entails) or under a proprietary license. When a client of yours gets your softwa

GPL as an evaluation license

2011-04-09 Thread Aviad Mandel
Hi list, I know you're not lawyers, but I though you could help me with a GPL issue. I'm writing a function library in C which I want to sell licenses for, targeting a specialized industry. To make my entry point better, I plan to release it under GPL (as opposed to LGPL) so that potential users