Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> * Jim Wilson -- Sunday 17 March 2002 19:09:
> > Interesting note, the top item on the list, "Racer" is not GPL or
anything
> > close to opensource ( see http://www.racer.nl/legal.htm ). It also
uses the
> > fmod lib for sound...which is imho overkill for a race sim...and it
is not
> > open either (in fact you can't even get the source). Guess I'm not
all that
> > familiar with Suse. Is that typical for their distribution?
>
> http://www.linuxracer.racesim.net/whatis.html
>
> m.
Yes, but Ruud (the author) clearly states otherwise and has consistently
fought attempts by some to redefine his stated intent. Personally, I don't
think Ruud realizes what he's doing. He's got some pipe dream that someone is
going to come along and offer him big bucks for his engine. I've seen the
code and wouldn't consider it that marketable. But who knows. As it stands I
think he would certainly gain by licensing under GPL. Right now anyone could
read it and steal his ideas, if not the code, for commercial purpose and he
would have no real recourse. In the end though I strongly believe it is the
author's right to license her or his code any way they like, and I find it
annoying when GPL champions try to pressure programmers to do otherwise.
Best,
Jim
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