[Gambas-user] Licensing problems in Gambas

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Sun Nov 22 08:00:53 CET 2009


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...

Claim the documentation copyright for yourself then use the GNU FDL.

> 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!

You won't know until you ask, hey.

> Thanks in advance for your comments.
>
> Regards,





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