From: "Stephan Kämper" <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Date: 2004-09-03T16:50:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] - EZFX Editor 0.6.0

Richard Lyman wrote:
> I'm really undecided about the whole licensing thing... obviously
> there are some restrictions that come with using the modules and
> packages that I've used... so I don't really know what license it
> would be under...

As it seems, the editor currently comes without any license at all...
<nitpicker_mode>
....which _might_ mean that you're not allowed to use it at all, since 
you don't have a license.
</nitpicker_mode>
Apart form that offering a closed source software where the source is 
that readable doesn't make a lot of sense to me. But 'source code 
protection' has been discussed here already.

However the code you use in your software might force you to use one 
license or another anyway. But IANAL...

I see a point in wrapping en aditor up in an installer, so that any user 
- whatever their background - could start using it without knowing of 
Ruby, programming ingeneral or sql (lite).
And for those users who havve little background Windows may in fact be 
the target OS of choice.

But then, there's a whole lot of well known and well done editors out 
there. There are even good editors that run on a Windows box (Emacs & 
vi). :-)
Plus there's another point to think about: A 0.6.x version isn't 
something you'd want to give to a user who probably couldn't deal with 
the problems anyway. (I admit I'm not terribly sure about this one.)

Happy rubying

Stephan


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