Hi Enoch,
> By the way, I recommend that thought is given to encourage Amforth use > in commercial (proprietary) designs. This is important if you wish to > draw in professional developers (for their skills and opening up > financial support opportunities). > > Even as things stand there is a way to "marry" GPL with proprietary code > which is described here: > <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLInProprietarySystem>. > The basic idea is: > > "However, in many cases you can distribute the GPL-covered software > alongside your proprietary system. To do this validly, you must make > sure that the free and non-free programs communicate at arms length, > that they are not combined in a way that would make them effectively a > single program." "Alongside" is the important term here. As far as I understood, building a Forth application means that you always extent the original Forth system. This is, as far as I know, a "derived work". In contrast to a compiled system, where you can replace one compiler with another and one "libc" with another and still have a working system, this doesn't work with Forths. The words of you application and amforth form a single programm. I do not see a way to combine amforth (GPL) with a proprietary application written in amforth. On the other hand, I'm of course not a lawyer. > Still, as the copyright holder you have the power to modify the license > to facilitate certain Amforth usage. I will expand if you are > interested. Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
