My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

Alan Dayley alandd at consultpros.com
Wed May 6 20:35:09 MST 2009


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Andrew "Tuna" Harris
<tuna at supertunaman.com> wrote:
> > TrollTech used to demand piles of money from software companies that wanted
> to use their Qt toolkit in their proprietary stuff, and they still do if
> they don't dynamically link to the libs. I ask for a little dance.

The value of money and transactions using it is well understood.
Asking for a little dance is not.

On the other hand, I remember people releasing "postcard software."
If you wanted to keep using the author required that you mail him/her
a postcard from your home town.  Not as silly as a dance but about as
enforcible, I guess.

Alan


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