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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user