[Sussex] Licence help

[Geoffrey Teale]

Just to back up what Steve said,

You absolutely can release your code as GPL and I would encourage you to 
do so. Only if the libraries and tools on you which your product depends 
explicity dissallows the creation of Free Software (be warned, newer 
Microsoft development tools fall into this category) would you have an 
issue.

If you already have a technical user base then a free software license 
should ensure that your project gets updates even without your input, 
though it's good form to public announce that you're looking for a new 
maintainer.

-- 
Geoff Teale
Free Software Foundation <tealeg at member.fsf.org>


Mark Harrison wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Dobson" <steve at dobson.org>
> To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 11:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] Licence help
> 
> 
> 
>>I would still think about the GPL.  GPL code can be linked against
> 
> non-free
> 
>>libraries (all GPL running on Solaris/HP-UX/AIX/WindowXX has to do this).
>>I would recommend that you put a BIG FAT WARNING that while your software
>>is "free" the stuff it uses is not.
> 
> 
> Big fat warnings are fine :-)
> 
> I was not sure whether I could release under the GPL in this situation. I'm
> glad that I can :-)
> 
> In case you're wondering - the software is a bunch of xAP Home Automation
> applications...
> 
> M.
> 
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