[Drawkit] DrawKit licensing hassles

[Alastair Houghton]

On 16 Sep 2008, at 09:13, Andrew Bush wrote:

> heh.  you are quite right of course.  I actually prefer the idea I  
> mentioned in the first instance of gpl'ing it but making it clear  
> that small commercial places could almost certainly get a commercial  
> license by asking for one.

I'm extremely anti the GPL right now (particularly version 3, but also  
any copy of version 2 or earlier that says you can use a later version  
on a derivative).  The FSF in recent years has been behaving in a much  
more extreme and in some cases outright unpleasant manner and so any  
decision to license the code under the GPL would certainly not attract  
my support.

FWIW, I have been contemplating donating some code I was working on  
that solves the boolean path operations problem, entirely in the  
Bezier path domain (i.e. no converting to lines and back again; curves  
that were in the original path will be preserved, as would lines that  
approximate a curve) and taking account of the winding rules of the  
respective paths, but I certainly would not want that code to be  
available under the GPL and I'm actually leaning towards some sort of  
license that is *intentionally* incompatible with GPL if indeed it is  
to be released at all.  Certainly I would want a non-commercial use  
clause in there.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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