Re: Thinking out loud about a new RPG web framework

["Niels Liisberg" <liisberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thorbjørn;


I'm on the same page as you regarding that "we don?t loose copyright".
However, I think that the RPG world is too small to both a
Commercial-IceBreak and an Open-IceBreak under GPL. Maybe I'm wrong here,
but if the Open-IceBreak kicks off, we (S&M) don?t stand a chance with the
commercial version.

Also - as Matt refer to: 
> > I would be very wary of a GPL license. For better or for worse, GPL is
(or at is least viewed as) an anti-commercial political statement as it is a
distribution license. We do have a little bit of GPL code here but we don't
modify it so for us, GPL isn't much better than closed source commercial
software<<

So I would rather have one strong product, controlled from with in a
community.... this is just my initial thoughts.


Best regards


Niels Liisberg
IceBreak Chief SW Architect

System & Metode Technologies
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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Sent: 11. juni 2008 17:50
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Thinking out loud about a new RPG web framework

Haas, Matt (CL Tech Sv) skrev  den 11-06-2008 17:14:
> I would be very wary of a GPL license. For better or for worse, GPL is (or
at is least viewed as) an anti-commercial political statement as it is a
distribution license. We do have a little bit of GPL code here but we don't
modify it so for us, GPL isn't much better than closed source commercial
software (the obvious advantage being we can look at source when needed for
debugging). IMHO, the Apache license is a much better corporate fit.
>   
Some companies have decided on GPL for the OpenSource version and that 
you can buy a version not under GPL (which is one way to monetize).  As 
Open Source does not mean that you loose copyright the owners can do 
what they want with their code (at this point). 

Would that be an option?