[PythonCE] VensterCE release

[David Fraser]

alexandre.delattre at enst-bretagne.fr wrote:
> 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 !
>   
I'd be keen to try it but would only be able to use LGPL / Python / MIT
license

Cheers
David