On 15 Oct 2003 at 21:41, Arnould Nazarian wrote:
> I was there in Eindhoven when there was a small meeting about what to do > now that Tony Tebby was ready to show the source code of SMSQ/E. > > I was the first to speak and I said that IMO 15 years of work of TT > should be legally protected so that he could benefit from the > development of a possible commercial product. > > This opinion materialised into this licence. Yes, this is what I remember, too. (...) > Q1: If SMSQ/E was distributed under this GPL licence and someone would > take it to develop a successfull product, TT would have no rights on it. > True or false? True - and, for me, this would be entirely unreasonable. > Q2: If SMSQ/E was free, would the current situation be very different > (ie would those who left still be with us/would there be new developers > and application software) ? Well Peter Graf seems to agrue that, yes this would have happened. I personally don't believe it, with, apparently, one exception (Richard Zidlicky). Wolfgang
