Allow me to weigh into the debate here.
Many of the questions you ask here, the answers can be found on the main
web site in the About section. But let me reiterate them here.
+ tagServlet Ltd is a UK company that owns the copyright of the
BlueDragon family.
+ NewAtlanta is a US company that licenses the BlueDragon product from
tagServlet.
+ tagServlet has no NA people on their board; NA has no tagServlet
people on their board.
+ OpenBD is the open source version of BlueDragon from tagServlet
+ aw2.0 Ltd is a Scottish Company led by Andy Wu and myself that has no
legal relationship to BlueDragon or OpenBD
+ note at the top of every file in OpenBD is the "tagServlet" header
Regarding licensing. As the license current stands, Nitai is spot on.
I really can't add anymore than that.
Now with that said, the Steering Committee have been debating this point
in the first week of January we all agreed that we wanted greater
freedom in what people could with the core engine.
We still want to protect the IPR and open source freedom that the GPL
license affords us. We believe that this license best represents the
spirit of open source. Insures we have good citizens, by forcing people
to share and share alike.
However we do see the need that the majority of people simply do not
care about modifying the source code and simply want to run it as a
blackbox. It is those people we want to cater for better with our license.
If you wish to write a plugin, or modify the source of the OpenBD
engine, then you must adhere to the GPL rules governing that.
So from our next official release, we'll be essentially allowing you to
bundle the binaries of OpenBD within your application without your
application having to be GPL itself. This includes commercial products
you want to dream up.
Any libraries that we use that are themselves GPL, we'll be spinning out
as a separate downloadable OpenBD plugin, so we don't contravene their
license. There isn't many (some db drivers for example).
As to when our next release is coming ... very soon. We are scheduled
for the April time frame, which will give us enough time to do the
changes we need and square away all the legals. Now that Andy has
done a terrific job on the implicit array/struct creation, the final big
piece of the April release is done.
I hope this addresses your questions, and gives you the freedom to do
what you were planning on doing.
G Allen R Souliere wrote:
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?
Third Question: What is AW2.0? :)
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