About Open Source freeware linsencing....

[albertlee]

Is there any linsencing for Open Source freeware?

 

more over, what is the advantages of obtaining a lincense?

 

Albert

[admiral_ju00]

Yeah it's called the GPL.

 

You don't 'obtain' it.

You simply take the code someone wrote before you, you may modify the code in any way shape or form, but do not modify the coder's before you coments/signature/or rules.

 

Here's a much better version of the above said:

 

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

[5614]

freeware is free, thats how it got its name

 

no license is legally needed, but what admiral_ju00 said is also true

 

but as you dont NEED one, why woud you want it, i cant see any advantage

[Sayonara]

freeware is free, thats how it got its name

Not necessarily true.

[albertlee]

but do not modify the coder's before you coments/signature/or rules.

 

I dont really get this sentence.

 

What does it mean by "the coder's"? and the coder's what?

Albert

[admiral_ju00]

I dont really get this sentence.

 

What does it mean by "the coder's"? and the coder's what?

Albert

 

If albertlee - (coder) wrote a short program, but at the very top left a GPL statement, I who download the program afterwords you posted on the internet can not or should not modify your GPL.

[admiral_ju00]

I take it you did not go to that website, but here's a quote from it:

 

 

Example of GPL

Gnomovision version 69, Copyright © year name of author <----Insert [ALBERTLEE] here

Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details

type `show w'. This is free software, and you are welcome

to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c'

for details.

[albertlee]

modify GPL?

 

is'nt that a license?

 

how can you actually "modify" it?

 

Albert

[albertlee]

admiral, or any obdy elses.... can help on?

 

Albert

[Sayonara]

http://forums.devshed.com/archive/t-89228

 

That sums it up.

[albertlee]

modify GPL?

 

is'nt that a license?

 

how can you actually "modify" it?

 

Albert

 

ANy way, admiral, what do you mean?

 

Albert

[admiral_ju00]

Heh, what part of post #7 do you find so confusing?

 

On a second though, someone, please help me!

 

Look at Post #7. See where it sais 'Authors name here' and then I included <-[ABLERTLEE Here]?

 

That is a modification of the original GPL and it will create problems for you IF you were to modify the code and release it to the public with YOUR name on it, thereby you will claim ALL of the credit for that source code.

 

If you modify the name to yours but DON'T release the code to the Internet, then no one's going to know about it. Right?

[albertlee]

thx for the responds....