Re: IBM i GUI Frameworks

[Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My bad on what came where, but the ideas are the same (sharing for the
benefit of all).

I understand that the talk needs to take place, but each project has
different goals and ideas. There will always be arguments for and against a
given license. What works for the goals of RPGUI won't work for powerEXT.
Here is a summary of the popular licenses:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/236699/what-open-source-license-to-choose

--
Mike Wills
http://mikewills.info


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> One slight correction.  I am using the JSON subprocedures from
> RPGNextGen.com (Mihael Schmidt) and not the ones from powerEXT.  This is
> where licensing makes a difference because I can't use any of the powerEXT
> code outside of the powerEXT Core (which is basically a wrapper for
> CGIDEV2).  On the flip side, Kevin Turner of Renaissance, with the MPL
> license, just gave me his blessing to start utilizing their code in
> OpenRPGUI (just loaded Renaissance on my V6.1 machine this morning) with
> very fair onuses back to OpenRPGUI.
>
> I know you are not a fan of the licensing talk, but this is exactly the
> reason why every software developer needs to have at least a medium
> understanding of how the various licenses work.  Many wrongly assume that
> if
> they find source on the internet that they can use it however they want.
> Yes we could send everybody over to gnu.org to read endless lawyer speak,
> or
> we could educate based on scenarios - so hopefully what I have said
> benefited some.
>
> Btw, hijacking the 5250 data stream can now be done with RPG Open Access
> fairly easily.  Check out Profound Logic's approach to this which is quite
> excellent (I haven't used it, I have only seen the demos).
> www.ProfoundUI.com
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
> http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Exactly! The three projects in question in this case may have different
> > goals, but still may be able to work together to accomplish the end goal.
> > Maybe Aaron has a breakthrough in hijacking the 5250 stream and can now
> > directly read from there, he can then share that with the other two and
> > they
> > all win. That is already happening with Aaron using the JSON
> subprocedures
> > from powerEXT.
> >
> > --
> > Mike Wills
> > http://mikewills.info
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