[PythonCE] VensterCE release

[alexandre.delattre at enst-bretagne.fr]

Brian Brown <brian at ablelinktech.com> a écrit :

>
> On Jan 30, 2007, at 8:55 AM, alexandre.delattre at enst-bretagne.fr wrote:
>
>>> I'm curious.
>>>
>>> The original Venster was published under the MIT license.
>>>
>>> Why have you published Venster-CE under the GPL license?
>>>
>>> Alan.
>>
>> Well, I thought that the most important was to use an OSI compliant
>> license and I personnaly prefer GNU/GPL. I'am no license-expert, so if
>> you see any problem with this, tell me, and I could change the
>> licensing.
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>
> Hello Alex,
>
>
> I was under the impression that MIT is quite OSI compliant. I prefer
> MIT/BSD licensing and have published a great deal of code under that
> license (http://techgame.net/projects/Framework).
>
> I personally believe there is a great synergy between commercial and
> open source entities; for example, all the code we have created as
> expressly open source were completely funded by commercial entities. We
> make it as free as we can (MIT/BSD) for commercial or non-commercial
> use. The GPL typically bars commercial use because you can't keep any
> part of your system proprietary.
>
> Basically, If a toolkit is GPL, I typically won't use it when doing
> development of my own stuff, although there are lots of other licenses,
> such as MPL, APL and others that are less restrictive that the GPL.
>
> That's my 2 cents :)
>
> - Brian
>
>
>
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Hello Brian,

Well, since I'm a student, I didn't really take into account  
commercial use. I ideally thought that GPL gives a lot of freedom for  
free or commercial development.
If it encouranges python ce users to choose venster as their gui  
toolkit, in free or commercial products, I will release the upcoming  
version under a MIT license.

Anyway, have you tried venster-ce ?
I'll be glad to have comments or (constructive :-) criticism !

Alex.