Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings! AFAICT: > > 1) You can build axiom atop a stripped down version of GCL under an > LGPL license, removing the conflict. It could still never get into > Debian. > > 2) The only rationale for a non-commercial use clause that I can see > is to keep open the possibility of a controlled separate licensing > to particular entites for commercial use. Thus, open Aldor ideally > could make significant strides which would be available to the > commercial version, but the latter could "embrace and extend" the > former, effectively co-opting this work and potentially draining > open Aldor of its user and developer base. The copyright holder > can argue that they earn the moral right to this option with the > initial source release, but the point as I see it is that no > volunteer should consider sinking in large quantities of time and > labor in scaling a steep learning curve and improving the system > for free if the system isn't effectively guaranteed a very long > lifetime as a vibrant open source project. The calculus for a > volunteer is that the benefit accrued from one's own learning and > that of many others over a long payoff period more than compensates > for the time lost upfront scaling the learning curve and possibly > tailoring the system to any particular needs. > > Just my $0.02.
Thats worth a lot more than $0.02, IMHO. Sincerely, Steve _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
