OSLib license

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 24 Nov at 2:31 Jonathan Coxhead <jonathan at doves.demon.co.uk> wrote in
message <47478D14.7010501 at doves.demon.co.uk>

[snip]
> > There have been a few queries, like yours, and one or two people have
> > positively declined to use OSLib because of the licence conditions.
> 
>    I'm unhappy that someone has looked at the licence and concluded it was
too
> restrictive. If I'd known, I'm sure something could have been worked out.
> 
Well, the discussion was on this list; I know you monitor it from time to
time, so I assumed you knew. My apologies. However as I recall it, the
objection was somewhat antagonistic, and didn't leave much room for us to
help.
 
>    It would have been nice if the DeskLib/Desk people had seen in OSLib
> something that would have inspired them to use it as the base for their
> library: I think they could complement each other nicely. But I don't know
> them, and I'm not about to send them unsolicited emails on the subject.
> 
Indeed, and I did make that suggestion to them some years ago. It fell on
stony ground.

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Cheers, Tony
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Tony van der Hoff        | mailto:tony at vanderhoff.org
Buckinghamshire, England