It appears that the best thing for me to do is just wait for you to put
several thousand more hours into your framework, and have a half dozen copy
cats incorporate it into their proprietary commercial offerings without so
much as returning to give you the time of day, then see if you change your
mind about the LGPL.
That's exactly what I am expecting, and hoping, will happen! Well, not the
part where they ignore me :-), but I am hoping that other software vendors
start using the OpenRPGUI code base to further their efforts. Why? Because
part of my ambitions have to do with keeping the platform alive, and what
better way to do that than to give code away in a liberal fashion.
I do recognize that OpenRPGUI dilutes the water for commercial offerings (as
you stated on OpenRPGUI's sourceforge page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rpgui/reviews/), but I don't think the way
commercial software is offered is what will allow the platform survive.
Why? Because any new blood coming out of schools today expect a different
software landscape than what big commercial businesses deliver. Community
based, and free, tools will win out in the end. This platform has been
milked by a number of entities for too many years without enough progress in
other areas (i.e. easy access to a machine) and that is now apparent. What
are we as a community going to do to stop that? Some will do nothing and
criticize those of us that are. Some will only be benefactors and not give
back - that is fine. And some will jump in with both feet and have fun with
technology while they still enjoy it and make lots of long-term friendships
along the way.
Maybe someday I will put some code into OpenRPGUI that will help
RelationalData, who knows.
If I understand correctly, that's why the organizers of the GNU project are
asking contributors to stop using the LGPL.
The GNU people are a special breed I am finding. I agree in part with them
and in other areas I don't feel they often live in reality of what
businesses must do these days to stay a float.
I should admit that I used about 6 lines of source code from your
HTML2PDF4i project. Thanks.
Excellent! I saved you 10 minutes of work ;-)
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
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