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Re: Ville: WIP part 5
08/28/12 05:09 PM


> Nope. As I understand it, Phil cooperated with them on an as-yet-unreleased M2
> emulator. Meanwhile their source release is under a license which states essentially
> that if you've ever looked at any of their code, they own every program you've ever
> written (people think the GPL is viral; it's got nothing on this).

Well I went and took a look at the licence as stated in the source code, it starts off well with saying it's based on LGPL which is quite permissive but then it basically adds several clauses which bans any commercial uses of the code or any knowledge gathered from the code, of course that restriction doesn't apply to them Anyway, not what I would call a great licence but not as bad as you made it out to be.

Mame/Mess licence bans commercial use and is also viral or am I missing something?







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Subject Posted by Posted on
* Ville: WIP part 5 R. Belmont 08/27/12 02:57 AM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 CptGuapo  08/27/12 02:35 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 Cypress  08/27/12 02:47 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 Osso1  08/27/12 02:52 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 R. Belmont  08/27/12 11:44 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 Lewis King  08/27/12 01:51 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 Blue limbo  08/27/12 10:56 AM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 R. Belmont  08/27/12 11:43 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 AtTheMoment  08/28/12 06:49 AM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 R. Belmont  08/28/12 04:43 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 Spelunker  08/28/12 05:09 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 R. Belmont  08/28/12 05:20 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 RdW  08/30/12 11:14 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 Spelunker  08/28/12 05:25 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 StilettoAdministrator  08/28/12 06:55 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 etabeta  08/28/12 05:16 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 Lord Nightmare  08/28/12 03:05 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 SmitdoggAdministrator  08/28/12 07:42 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 alca  08/28/12 10:57 AM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 Ville Linde  08/27/12 03:48 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 StilettoAdministrator  08/27/12 05:43 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 Solstar  08/27/12 09:40 AM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 MrMichaelHill13  08/27/12 05:38 AM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 Master O  08/27/12 04:11 AM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 R. Belmont  08/27/12 11:47 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 H@P  08/31/12 10:18 PM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 Master O  08/28/12 02:24 AM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 colour_thief  08/27/12 05:33 AM
. * Re: Ville: WIP part 5 Spelunker  08/27/12 05:42 AM

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