Re: VensterCE release
David Fraser <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.python.windows-ce |
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[email protected] wrote: > Brian Brown <[email protected]> a écrit : > > >> On Jan 30, 2007, at 8:55 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> >>>> I'm curious. >>>> >>>> The original Venster was published under the MIT license. >>>> >>>> Why have you published Venster-CE under the GPL license? >>>> >>>> Alan. >>>> >>> Well, I thought that the most important was to use an OSI compliant >>> license and I personnaly prefer GNU/GPL. I'am no license-expert, so if >>> you see any problem with this, tell me, and I could change the >>> licensing. >>> >>> Alex. >>> >>> >> Hello Alex, >> >> >> I was under the impression that MIT is quite OSI compliant. I prefer >> MIT/BSD licensing and have published a great deal of code under that >> license (http://techgame.net/projects/Framework). >> >> I personally believe there is a great synergy between commercial and >> open source entities; for example, all the code we have created as >> expressly open source were completely funded by commercial entities. We >> make it as free as we can (MIT/BSD) for commercial or non-commercial >> use. The GPL typically bars commercial use because you can't keep any >> part of your system proprietary. >> >> Basically, If a toolkit is GPL, I typically won't use it when doing >> development of my own stuff, although there are lots of other licenses, >> such as MPL, APL and others that are less restrictive that the GPL. >> >> That's my 2 cents :) >> >> - Brian >> >> >> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PythonCE mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce >>> > > Hello Brian, > > Well, since I'm a student, I didn't really take into account > commercial use. I ideally thought that GPL gives a lot of freedom for > free or commercial development. > If it encouranges python ce users to choose venster as their gui > toolkit, in free or commercial products, I will release the upcoming > version under a MIT license. > > Anyway, have you tried venster-ce ? > I'll be glad to have comments or (constructive :-) criticism ! > I'd be keen to try it but would only be able to use LGPL / Python / MIT license Cheers David