From: Richard Lyman Date: 2004-09-10T11:13:41+09:00 Subject: Re: SQLite/Ruby -- one more thing Thanks for switching to the BSD license. I've been thinking about a tool for SQLite... -Rich On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:38:11 +0900, Carl Youngblood wrote: > If for some odd reason I ever want to sell a product that uses > SQLite/Ruby, I am no longer obliged to distribute my product's source > along with it. Of course, with an interpreted language, source must > accompany a program, but if it is running online, for example, it > doesn't need to be released. But under the GPL, as far as I > understand it, if I were to sell some online service that used GPL > source code, I would be required to make my source code available in > some manner, be it through download, CD-ROM, or even 100 floppy disks. > Speaking of which, how would that be for some crazy bad-faith > sidestepping of the GPL? Say you are a stupid company and you want to > fulfill the terms of the GPL while still making the source code > essentially inaccessible? How about distributing it in extremely fine > print on regular paper with all unncessary whitespace removed? Or > distributing it on 5' 1/4" floppies? (I'm being facetious, of course) > > > > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:40:03 +0900, Robert wrote: > > In what way? Just curious... > > > > Robert > > > > "Carl Youngblood" wrote in message > > news:e5ed7b69040909132166036bc@mail.gmail.com... > > > Thanks. It does to me. > > > > > > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:08:10 +0900, Jamis Buck wrote: > > > > One more thing I should have mentioned in the announcement: the license > > > > for SQLite/Ruby 2.0.0 has changed from the GPL to BSD. If that makes any > > > > difference at all to any of you. :) > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Jamis Buck > > > > jgb3@email.byu.edu > > > > http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis > > > > > > > > "I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal." > > > > > > > > > > > >