Marcel Hendrix wrote: John Doty <jpd@whispertel.LoseTheH.net> writes Re: Copyleft and embedded Forth [..] The problem with the BSD approach is well illustrated by SPICE, for which there are several incompatible commercial versions. Operationally, these are only slight improvements on the Berkeley original, but the changes are sufficiently difficult...

John Doty <jpd@whispertel.LoseTheH.net> writes Re: Copyleft and embedded Forth [..] The problem with the BSD approach is well illustrated by SPICE, for which there are several incompatible commercial versions. Operationally, these are only slight improvements on the Berkeley original, but the changes are sufficiently difficult to reverse engineer that ...

... would better serve the Open Source Forth community? GPL seems too strong and...to see why this is a Forth question.  Are you suggesting there is...> drives some need for a Forth-specific open source license? It's a copyleft question, although Forth has some interesting side...(it runs on a custom Forth) then GPL seems to require that the custom Forth needs to be distributed too. In other ...

... from readline? - anton -- M. Anton Ertl http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html New standard: http://www.forth200x.org/forth200x.html EuroForth 2008: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/euroforth/ef08.html...

... the license status of those other files. So like the LGPL, it protects the CDDL infrastructure from being encumbered. However, it doesn't place any requirements on other files mixed in. Aha! This sounds like just the thing for a Forth software library for files that authors want to place under more protection than just the acknowledgment protection the BSD License provides.

... into abstract GPL vs. others. One of original assertions was that GPL is good choice to publish Forth code. I contend it, pointing that in similar programming language communities without one single implementation, the best results ... in the commercial product are invalid, even when you don't take into account much lesser commercial usage of Forth. -- CKOPO BECHA... CKOPO CE3OH...

... were discussing. - anton -- M. Anton Ertl http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html New standard: http://www.forth200x.org/forth200x.html EuroForth 2008: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/euroforth/ef08.html...

...most non-lawyers. - anton -- M. Anton Ertl http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html New standard: http://www.forth200x.org/forth200x.html EuroForth 2008: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/euroforth/ef08.html...

... code lives forever. See the 6809 assembler on my site. I resurrected a linux version after twenty years from some source code that was salvaged in an obscure archive together with a Forth system. Was that code released under GPL originally? Or was it just released? How many users of those code are around? 6809 is gone, and I don't see that there're...

... source code lives forever. See the 6809 assembler on my site. I resurrected a linux version after twenty years from some source code that was salvaged in an obscure archive together with a Forth system. Was that code released under GPL originally? Or was it just released? How many users of those code are around? 6809 is gone, and I don't see that there're ...