Re: OT: Open Source Apple Mods
Re: OT: Open Source Apple Mods
- Subject: Re: OT: Open Source Apple Mods
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:07:03 -0400
on 10/25/01 5:17 AM, vectormation wrote:
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Look, open source is great and all, but please don't limit these scripts
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to "free" uses as the polluting GPL does. Please consider a BSD or Apple
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style license that allows the mods to be used in for-pay work. My
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employers refuse to allow the use of any GPL code because they like
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getting paid back for the labor they underwrite. I'd like to get more
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work done by using Apple Mods, either under the public domain (as I'd
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wager they legally are without an explicit GPL statement) or under a
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BSD-derived license.
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~Phi
I don't see how releasing them under the GPL restricts you or your employers
from making and or selling for-profit script based solutions that use the
mods on Applemods.
From the GPL...
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These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable
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sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably
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considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License,
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and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as
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separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole
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which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on
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the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
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entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it
As I understand the GPL, especially when applied to libraries, you are
free to sell a script or an app that uses GPL'd libraries. just don't
include them in your distribution.
And I wouldn't want to see everyone's work rolled up into another $50
library like the one MacScript offers. I'm not saying they shouldn't charge
for their work, just saying that without protection, everything on AppleMods
could be incorporated into something just like that. I don't think that the
BSD license would prevent that.
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Paul Skinner