Re: GWindows and a future home for it

[Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>]

Hyman Rosen wrote:

> ... the practical problems of
> such "fair source" licenses will doom them.
 > ... The weight of legal and
> accounting requirements to track these is just as heavy
> as for closed-source packages.

In that case I see no problem, because proprietary software does not 
seem to be suffering from this :-)

Of course managing shares in fair source is more complicated than in 
open source--where there are none. But we think it can be done, and 
we're working toward putting some tools in place for it. See for example 
the Relative Credit Scheme and the respective provisions in Bob Leif's 
Ada Developers Cooperative License.

> ... Just because some programmer wants to make money does not
> obligate anyone else to march to his drumbeat.

Well, you can just say it the other way around: if some programmer does 
not want to make money...

Anyway in fair source any author can forfeit his right to be rewarded.

Thanks for your time and knowledge. I'll take a look at the Id Sender 
business.