From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2005-08-14T11:01:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby report generation tool

how do u earn money from them then?


On 14/08/2005, at 2:04 AM, Tom Copeland wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 00:44 +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>
>> On 8/13/05, Greg Brown <greg7224@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Regarding Ruport, I have received some requests to consider a  
>>> license
>>> other than the GPL.  I am thinking of using the license of ruby
>>> itself, which would be a disjunctive license of the GPL and the ruby
>>> license. Would this be permissive enough for most people's  
>>> needs?   I
>>> am willing to consider the Artistic license as well, though I'd  
>>> prefer
>>> to use a license which offers the GPL as an option.  Feel free to
>>> voice your opinion on or off list.
>>>
>>
>> When working on PDF::Writer, I deliberately chose the MIT-style  
>> licence
>> because I wanted it to be used as widely as possible. It can be  
>> used in
>> GNU GPLed projects without problems (modulo issues with Adobe's  
>> patents,
>> but that's a generic issue, not a GNU GPL issue) or under commercial
>> projects without problems.
>>
>
> +1.  I BSD license my projects whenever possible - if someone wants to
> use them in a product, more power to them.  More than likely,  
> they'll be
> feeding bug fixes and whatnot back into the code, and even if not,  
> it's
> more mindshare for the project.  It's worked out well for me in the  
> Java
> world with PMD - http://pmd.sf.net/ - good times.
>
> Yours,
>
> Tom
>
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