[Gambas-user] Licensing problems in Gambas

[Charlie Reinl]

Am Donnerstag, den 19.11.2009, 10:06 -0500 schrieb Rob:
> On Thursday 19 November 2009 07:09 am, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> Wikipedia uses the GNU FDL, and of course there are the various Creative 
> Commons licenses that are better suited to documentation than programs.
> 
> I guess the next question is whether everyone who's contributed to the wiki 
> will go for whichever license you pick; I'm certainly okay with the GFDL or 
> CC-BY-SA, but I have no idea how other people would feel.  
> 
> I thought I had some text in the old Wiki on the editor page that required 
> the user to submit their entries under some free license, but that page 
> wasn't included in the static dumps for obvious reasons and I can't find 
> the old tarballs of our TWiki installation that I made after the spammers 
> attacked.  At any rate, I don't see anything like that in the current 
> Wiki's editor.
> 
> > 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!
> 
> Who wrote gb.db.firebird?  Maybe they could maintain it as a separate 
> package, though I guess whichever Gambas headers they built against would 
> have to be relicensed as LGPL in that case.  I didn't know anyone used 
> firebird anymore.
> 
> Rob

Salut Rob,

gambas-1.0.17/help/VisualIntroductionToGambas.html

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