RE: [school-discuss] What License for automatic schedule building?

[Chris Puttick <chris@centralmanclc.com>]

I'd vote for GPL - if it's a stand-alone engine which you pass data to and
from, then any commercial player can still use it without having to modify
their proprietary stance on the rest of their package. A licence that
prohibited use in such a way would have to be carefully worded to not
prevent sales of fully open source but boxed and shiny solutions that
included the solution.

Taking the GPL stance on such a powerful solution may help in the end
persuade the developers working for the proprietary solutions company to
contribute something to the open source community in this or another arena.
One can hope...

BTW, the timetabling ideas sound fascinating. Any timeline in mind yet?

Chris 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rauterkus
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
Sent: 4/19/03 2:48 PM
Subject: [school-discuss] What License for automatic schedule building?

>  It should be developed as a stand alone engine that can be utilized
by 
> developers of both open source administrative systems and commercial 
> systems. I am willing to work with anyone who shares this vision. I
would 
> not approve (although there is nothing I can do about it) of anyone
taking 
> this start and adding good ideas in secret to it. If you have a good
idea 
> please share it with the rest of us. 



Important issues fall into the realm of "license discussions." Community
projects, IMHO, need to cross the License hurdle early, if not first. 

Some license choices would NOT permit the engine to be utilized by both
open-souce and closed-source developers. But, you wrote, "commercial
systems." Most licenses do allow for open source and commercialization.
Libre Software with charges. 

You are willing to work with anyone who shares this vision -- but I fear
that the vision of yours isn't yet really shared. 

What specific license do you suggest? 
    Apache?
    LGPL?
    


Ta.


Mark Rauterkus
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