[License-discuss] Is what's made with Open Source, Open Source?

2015-06-11 Thread Gareth Edwards
Hi there, The London Borough of Camden, here in the UK, are keen proponents of Open Source and have sponsored the creation of a drag and drop app builder, Rapid. http://www.rapid-is.co.uk (for desktop and mobile, check it out ;) ) The big thing everyone wants to know (and no-one seems to be

Re: [License-discuss] Is what's made with Open Source, Open Source?

2015-06-11 Thread Cinly Ooi
If you choose GPLv3, then anyone down stream are required to use GPLv3. That's the requirement of the license. However, in general, using open source does not mean your program will have to be open source. You are, however, constrained by the license of the open source software you choose to use,

Re: [License-discuss] Is what's made with Open Source, Open Source?

2015-06-11 Thread Gervase Markham
On 11/06/15 11:44, Cinly Ooi wrote: > If you choose GPLv3, then anyone down stream are required to use GPLv3. > That's the requirement of the license. > > However, in general, using open source does not mean your program will > have to be open source. "That depends on what the program does", as

Re: [License-discuss] Is what's made with Open Source, Open Source?

2015-06-11 Thread Cinly Ooi
Dear Gerv You are right. I did assume the output of the program Rapid is code for the app and the output code is GPL-ed. Sorry for not making it clear. Best Regards, Cinly * Don't bother with footer please. I don't read them and will not be bounded by them. It cannot be enforced legally any

Re: [License-discuss] Is what's made with Open Source, Open Source?

2015-06-11 Thread Maximilian
On 10/06/2015 12:33, Gareth Edwards wrote: > The big thing everyone wants to know (and no-one seems to be able to > answer), is are the apps made with Rapid also Open Source, i.e. are > app creators obliged to share the code and files for apps they've made > using Rapid with the rest of the Rapid c

Re: [License-discuss] Is what's made with Open Source, Open Source?

2015-06-11 Thread cowan
Maximilian scripsit: > Regarding point one, the GPLv3 doesn't allow for this. If it did, for > example, documents made with LibreOffice would themselves be licensed > under the GPLv3. Technically I think it would be possible for such a > licence to still be compatible with the Open Source Definiti

Re: [License-discuss] Is what's made with Open Source, Open Source?

2015-06-11 Thread Maximilian
On 11/06/2015 20:47, co...@ccil.org wrote: > I think it would require that the recipient explicitly accept the license > as a requirement to getting LibreOffice (or whatever), which would make > it not Open Source. Possibly, and I would have thought that it would require more than a mere copyright