[Gambas-user] Licensing problems in Gambas

[Werner]

On 19/11/09 20:09, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are two licensing problems in Gambas that must be solved.
>
> 1) The first one should not be difficult: we must find a license for the 
> gambas wiki documentation that makes it free. I need suggestions...
>   
The most obvious choice would be some sort of Creative Commons license,
I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses

> 2) The bad problem: gb.db.firebird uses two sources files from www.ibpp.org 
> whose license (the Borland Interbase Public License) is not compatible with 
> the GPL. This point was raised by Kelly Hopkins, the maintainer of the gnu.org 
> free software directory. I'm afraid Gambas will have to lose firebird support, 
> but maybe we should ask www.ibpp.org about that. I need help there too!
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments.
>
> Regards,
>
>