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Subject: Re: Releasing source code

Author: Oliver Roese

Date: 12:01:27 10/08/00

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On October 07, 2000 at 07:07:37, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On October 07, 2000 at 04:44:52, José Carlos wrote:
>
>>  I'm thinking of releasing the source code of this version of Averno (0.31)
>>which seems stable and debugged.
>>  I'm afraid, though, of _incorrect_ use the source code, so I'd like to join
>>the GLP, or something like that. Anyway, I'm only willing to release source >code of this version, I'll think what to do in next versions. Do this fit into >GLP?
>
>You're probably referring to the GPL, the GNU Public License. It's a good
>license, but I do recommend that you read it *very* carefully.
>
>As the copyright holder, you can use whatever license you want for the
>versions you release, so using the GPL will not affect what you can
>do for future versions. You can even distribute the version you
>published under GPL with a different license if you want to. But only
>_you_ will be able to do this, the rest of the people have to use GPL
>or nothing.
>

I dont believe that this is so.
At least i hope it is not so. I think it is against the spirit of free software.
Why do you think, that this so? Can you give a reference?


>The GPL itself has detailed instructions on how to apply it to your
>sources. For more info, refer to http://www.gnu.org
>
>>Is anybody interested in my code? I don't really have time to write good
>>comments, and maybe some of the comments that are in the code are kind of >stupid (probably :)).
>>Well, I'd like to here opinions about this, that can help me make my
>>decision.
>
>Having code, even if it is lousy, is better than not having anything
>at all ;)
>
>--
>GCP



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