nanogui: Licensing
Subject:
RE: Licensing
From:
"Darran D. Rimron" ####@####.####
Date:
2 Jul 1999 16:57:36 -0000
Message-Id: <NCBBLCEDENCINNMFNPBCMEHACNAA.darran@rimron.co.uk>
> -----Original Message-----
> But you would be supplying an application linked with a
> library clearly from a third party clearly with a seperate
> API, so source to the library (and chanegs you make to the
> library) would need to be free but not the application
> under LGPL. Is that still a problem ?
Before I start this explanation, I stress this isn't my philosophy, but
my investors have tied my hands on what source I can release, and to
who.
The simple truth is the EPOS application is currently retailing for
200ukp per copy for the till software, and the server is even more
again. Currently it's using an N-Curses type front-end, but I want to
"upgrade" it.
I don't care what I have to promise to do to use Nano as my display
"library", but my application is mine, and I have no desire to release
any source code of it to anyone else.
My WorkstationOS can only run a single task, and my users have no desire
to have a bundle of C files shipped with every till. Also, being as the
tills are diskless, I don't want to just "have the files there for the
licence purposes" because that'll take up valuable flash space.
So, this is where *I* stand, I want a single executable that I'm allowed
to keep the source to my part "secret" - I don't really want to release
the device driver code, because I am using a barcode scanner and don't
want to have to release my code to drive that.
I don't want to have to distribute the source to anything I link
against, because my users won't be interested, and it would be
impractical. I'm happy to have licence agreements in the documentation,
or the software, if I *MUST*, but other than that....
Now I'm no legal eagle, but what licence would you call that? I know
what I want, but I don't know if I can have it.
-Darran
