On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:59 PM, G Allen R Souliere < [email protected]> wrote:
> >> There may also be licensing concerns with distributing your app as a >> package like this along with OpenBD if your app isn't GPL too. Talk with the >> folks at NewAtlanta or AW2.0 to make sure. >> >> > Unless I am misunderstand the GPL, there is no issue with running the > application for commercial uses, unless you change the source code of > OpenBD. So, for instance, if I changed the actual code within OpenBD, I > would have to provide the source code for those changes. However, there is > no limitation to using OpenBD to run an application that you have developed, > is there? > GPL dictates what you can do with the source and how it can be packaged and distributed. Being an engine there is some open to interpretation if you can package/distribute OpenBD in a commercial software offering. Hopefully over the next coming month(s) we can come out with some clarification and lessen the ambiguity of the GPL license and protect OpenBD and ensure it's opensourceness far into the future. > Second Question: Isn't OpenBD an open source project? Should it not have > any ties to NewAtlanta? There isn't anything in its licence that ties it to > New Atlanta anymore, is there? > NA still licenses the OpenBD engine, thus if you wanted to distribute BlueDragon, and the GPL license does not work, you want work with New Atlanta on an OEM deal. I remember way back NA offered some rather decent prices. I all honesty I think OpenBD can work for you in this respect but as a fall back NA could help. > Third Question: What is AW2.0? :) > AW2.0 is the company that owns the copyright for OpenBD. Alan Williamson and Andy Wu (and others if I recall) == AW2.0 Adam -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !!
