Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI
This is good advice. It happened to me once or twice ;) that a certain company with ever changing names used my sourcecode and licensed it under their own closed terms because i included the term: use as you like. If the owner wants that not to happen,, choose any of these licenses mentioned. This is really important. Without huge legal fees I can't get my intellectual property back I am sadly, and not only with this company, not alone in this. Protect it from misuse. Thaddy On 14-1-2014 11:27, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote: Well, all open source projects need a license, otherwise they're not very useful legally speaking, so he'll need to pick one. If he doesn't care what people do with his code he can use a permissive license like MIT or zlib. More information and a list of licenses can be found at http://opensource.org/licenses On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Anton Kavalenka anto...@tut.by wrote: On 13.01.2014 15:30, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote: Is it/will be open source? Under what license? Author said so. He gives it away for community for free. He even did not require to mention his name. Do you need a written permission from him? regards, Anton btw it looked like http://www.unichrom.com/history/sv95.gif On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Anton Kavalenka anto...@tut.by wrote: On 07.01.2014 12:19, Michael Schnell wrote: What is the difference between this and the TUI that comes up when you start tp. (Same obviously already is part of the fpc source code distribution.) -Michael ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel Sorry for delay. Yes, It is TV-based. Non-gui units can be used either from TV or FV. But GUI implementation is true graphic, not pseudographic dialog frames etc. Unit names of GUI part somewhat like TPW - kernel, user, windows but they have nothing common except names. GUI written from scratch in TV classes hierarchy. generally it was looked like UniChrom DOS Btw where to upload sources - to listserver as mail attachment? regards, Anton ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI
Thaddy schrieb: It happened to me once or twice ;) that a certain company with ever changing names used my sourcecode and licensed it under their own closed terms because i included the term: use as you like. Better: free for private use. If the owner wants that not to happen,, choose any of these licenses mentioned. This is really important. Without huge legal fees I can't get my intellectual property back Sorry, that's nonsense. You still have all rights on your own software, no need to get anything back. Even in outdated Copyright terms a use as you like should not mean take ownership. DoDi ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: If the owner wants that not to happen,, choose any of these licenses mentioned. This is really important. Without huge legal fees I can't get my intellectual property back Sorry, that's nonsense. You still have all rights on your own software, no need to get anything back. Even in outdated Copyright terms a use as you like should not mean take ownership. I don't think that's necessarily the case. If you don't make a clear statement of ownership in every accessible file then it's difficult to claim that it's not in the public domain (or res nullius), that's why classic IBM operating systems and HP calculator firmware are now being distributed freely. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Tomas Hajny wrote: On Tue, January 14, 2014 11:27, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote: Well, all open source projects need a license, otherwise they're not very useful legally speaking, so he'll need to pick one. If he doesn't care what people do with his code he can use a permissive license like MIT or zlib. More information and a list of licenses can be found at http://opensource.org/licenses The author may also decide to declare his work as public domain - no special licence is then necessary. I've always felt that the whole license issue is slightly fetishist :) Michael. ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI
On Tue, January 14, 2014 15:38, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: If the owner wants that not to happen,, choose any of these licenses mentioned. This is really important. Without huge legal fees I can't get my intellectual property back Sorry, that's nonsense. You still have all rights on your own software, no need to get anything back. Even in outdated Copyright terms a use as you like should not mean take ownership. I don't think that's necessarily the case. If you don't make a clear statement of ownership in every accessible file then it's difficult to claim that it's not in the public domain (or res nullius), that's why classic IBM operating systems and HP calculator firmware are now being distributed freely. Even if it is in the public domain, you don't need to do anything to be able to use it (you can use it as well as anybody else). On the other hand, if you want to keep the licence terms under your control, you indeed need to choose an appropriate licence first. Tomas ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI
Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: If the owner wants that not to happen,, choose any of these licenses mentioned. This is really important. Without huge legal fees I can't get my intellectual property back Sorry, that's nonsense. You still have all rights on your own software, no need to get anything back. Even in outdated Copyright terms a use as you like should not mean take ownership. I don't think that's necessarily the case. If you don't make a clear statement of ownership in every accessible file then it's difficult to claim that it's not in the public domain (or res nullius), In contrary, nobody can state then that it *is* in the public domain. that's why classic IBM operating systems and HP calculator firmware are now being distributed freely. Not legally in the EU, at least not with consent of the rights holder. Ownership expires after some time, perhaps the old Copyright protection has expired now? Otherwise ownership expires 70 years after the *death* of the author, what unlikely happened for software yet :-] In current international law (Droit d'Auteur) *only* the author has rights on his work. Everbody else must be allowed by the author to use it. That's why a author note will allow to identify the person from which one can obtain the right to use it. When the author can not be identified, then the work is *not* in the public domain, nobody is allowed to use it. DoDi ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
