On 02/17/2014 08:07 PM, Sam Putman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Matthias Trute <mtr...@web.de> wrote: > >>> Enoch wrote: >>> >>> P/S Let's start no GPL wars here. I'm not talking about code falling >>> under the GPLv2 license. >> >> You have told your customer, that amforth is GPL'ed, havn't you?? >> So if (s)he uses amforth, the source(s) of any derived work must be >> available upon request, There will be no battles to fight here, >> not even a (further) discussion, GPL is accepted by many >> courts worldwide, even in the US.
> > I am concerned about part of what you appear to be implying here. Do you > consider Forth words loaded into the AmForth environment to constitute > 'derived works', and hence subject to the GPL? > > That would make me uncomfortable, as someone who favors the public domain > and BSD/MIT style permissive licenses for my own work. I'm also unclear on > what interpretation of copyright law would support this. There is nothing surprising. AmForth is not a compiler, which exists separate from the source code it compiles. So you cannot exchange this "non-compiler" for something else without losing your functional system. So a working AmForth system with "my" code on top is to be regarded a derived works. "My" code in its compiled form is indistinguishable from compiled code of the AmForth system. This is a peculiarity of Forth in general. If you want a different licence, be it proprietary or even more permissive, you have to choose a different Forth or come up with your own. I'm not a lawyer, but that is, what I understand. This discussion has surfaced here before and is pretty pointless. Cheers, Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
