D2 GUI Libs

[Nick Sabalausky]

"BLS" <windevguy at hotmail.de> wrote in message 
news:hg0or1$2rtu$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 12/12/2009 18:44, dsimcha wrote:
>> Because the Boost license doesn't require attribution for works only 
>> distributed
>> in binary form.
>
> All these kitchen sink license issues are monkey buisiness.
> If you don't care : make it public domain.

I'm really tired of public domain constantly being tossed around as if it 
were actually a reasonable option:

1. If you put someting in PD, you're no longer legally allowed to claim that 
you actually wrote it (leave it to a government to try to redefine reality 
like that...). In other words, you're not allowed to state an actual fact 
about it.

2. Different countries define public domain differently, some countries 
don't define it, and others don't even have a concept of public domain at 
all.

Adam also said there's a liability issue, but (IANAL) that would surprise me 
because AIUI, public domain is all about severing *all* ties between an 
author and their work. But then again, that's probably just one of those 
things that differs by country.

The thing about zlib (or something like beerware) is that it's basically a 
version of public domain that *isn't* total crap.

> if you want to share : make it GPL 3

That's just BS. It's more like this:

If you want to share *only* with people who, #1 also want to share 
everything they do with it, *and* #2 don't mind dealing with a fifty-foot 
wall of legalese gibberish that's completely impenetrable without shelling 
out bucks for a lawyer that'll probably cost them more than if you had just 
charged a basic fee in the first place: Make it GPL.

If you *just simply want to share*: Make it zlib, or maybe beerware or 
something like that.

> if you want to make money : make it close source.
> period.
>