[Offtopic] Re: [MonoDevelop] Monodevelop brother [Offtopic]

J.M.Piulachs [Sand!] jmarc.piulachs@esand.net
Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:12:04 +0200


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernhard Spuida" <bernhard@icsharpcode.net>
To: <monodevelop-list@lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [MonoDevelop] Monodevelop brother


> Hi all!
>
> > Yes I'm writting a free IDE. It's dual licensed (GNU and comercial) like
a
> > lot of other great products (myxaml , ezPublisher..) , the thing is :
> > (extracted from SDE website)
>
> Dual Licensing is possible if you have a copyright assignment by the
> originators of the code - the snippets Mike posted obivously were not
> assigned over to you - see what Fatih stated, according to Mike.
> And in all fairness to the original developers - their statements of
> copyright should be left intact even in GPL software. 'Standing on
> the shoulders of giants' - to quote Sir Isaac Newton - does not mean
> you should forget about mentioning those shoulders.
> After all, 'Free Software' does not stand for 'free for the taking'.


you are absolutly right .For a couple of reasons already explained to D#
team a very small amount of copyrighted D# code was *illegaly* present on my
IDE code base.

But please , we are talking about no more than 10 clases out of hundreds
that my code has .The code we are talking about has been removed and
rewriteen in less than 2 hours so please be fair with my project and my
intentions ...SDE is very diferent from D#.


>
> > Sand SDE software is 100% GPL (General Public License).  If your
software is
> > also 100% GPL compliant, then you have no obligation to pay for the
> > licenses.  For further information on the GNU GPL, click here.
> > Please note the following restrictions.  If these do not suit your
needs,
> > you should consider a commercial license.
> >
> >   a.. Sand SDE is free use for those who are 100% GPL.  If your
application
> > is licensed under GPL, you are free to ship any GPL software of Sand SDE
> > with your application.
> >   b.. Under the Open Source License, you must release the complete
source
> > code for the application that is built on Sand SDE, excluding the source
> > code for operating system components that are usually installed on the
> > computer on which the application will be installed.
> >   c.. As long as you do not distribute your application, you are free to
use
> > Sand SDE regardless of whether your application is GPL or not.
Basically,
> > the rule is, you can't distribute it unless 1) it's open source, or 2)
you
> > obtain a commercial license from Sand SDE.
> >   d.. You are allowed to modify Sand SDE source code any way you like as
> > long as the distributed derivative work is licensed under the GPL as
well.
> >   e.. You are allowed to copy Sand SDE binaries and source code, but
when
> > you do so, the copies will fall under the GPL license.
> > The rule is every body can use this product for free but companies must
pay
> > a small fee if they are going to earn money with it.
> >
> I do not want to sound like the 'GPL police', but proper attribution
> should be honored.
> I hope that this has now clarified my attitude towards these things.
> Regards,
>
>                   Bernhard Spuida
>                   #develop senior word wrangler
>
>
>
>              "This manual says what our product actually does, no
> matter what the salesman
> may have told you it does." -In a californian graphic board manual,
> 1985.
>
>
>
>
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