This is distressing, do I understand correctly that someone originaly
bought one copy of DialogBlocks and generated the dialogs? And if new
dialogs are needed only he can do it?
I have seen in the last few months that the Kicad team is very cautious
about licences. Is this some marginal case?
Alain
Richard A Burton escreveu:
> 2008/8/27 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@...
<mailto:stambaughw%40verizon.net>>:
>> You might want to take a look at the license for DialogBlocks
>> <http://www.anthemion.co.uk/dialogblocks/faq.htm#license
<http://www.anthemion.co.uk/dialogblocks/faq.htm#license>> that is used
>> to layout most of the dialog boxes in Kicad. It is neither open source
>> or free as in beer. I did a quick grep of some of the dialog sources
>> managed by DialogBlocks and they were all created with an unregistered
>> (demo) version of DialogBlocks. So even if there is an agreement
>> (verbal or written) between the Kicad project and the developer of
>> DialogBlocks, it can change at any time and require nearly all of the
>> dialog boxes to be rewritten.
>
> It doesn't mean anything like that. In fact it specifically states:
> "Are there licensing restrictions on the generated code?
> No. You can treat the resulting code as if you had written it
> yourself from scratch."
>
> Yes the license could be changed, but that would only be applicable to
> code generated with a version of the tool distributed under that new
> license. It would not be applicable to existing code that has already
> been generated under this license, so there would be no need to
> recreate any dialog boxes. Spreading FUD about non-free applications
> is no better than spreading it about FOSS, so please try to avoid it.
>
> On the VC++ topic I don't understand why this has caused so much
> debate. If someone wants to add support for another compiler that's
> great, so long as they don't break any existing builds. It gives a
> wider development platform, which is a good thing. Remember open
> source is about choice, and you are perfectly free to choose to use a
> closed source free/paid compiler if you want to, for whatever reasons
> you want (and there are plenty of good and bad reasons/scenarios to do
> this).
>
> Richard.
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