[Gambas-user] Licensing problems in Gambas

[Toni]

I would go for the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL 
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html)

Creative commons (CC) isn't a bad choice either and it's quite popular 
nowadays. But it has 2 issues, the first one is that it isn't exactly 
the same in every country, and the second is that when choosing a CC 
license, you have to take a combination of the four major conditions:
- Attribution (BY): if selected the use of materials will have to 
contain attribution to the original author.
- Share Alike (SA):  if selected derivative works will have to be 
released under the same or a similar license (later or jurisdiction 
version).
- Non-Commercial (NC): if selected no commercial work can be done with 
the material.
- No Derivative Works (ND): if selected no Derivative works of the 
material are allowed.

If NC or NC are choosen then the resulting Creative commons license 
can't be considered a free license. Further I think that some people 
won't consider as a "valid free license" a Creative commons  with 
condition of Attribution (BY).

Regards,
Toni



En/na Werner ha escrit:
> 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,
>>
>>   
>>     
>
>
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