Tarmik wrote:solars wrote:So, what is your problem with the license of minetest?
SNIPPY SNIP....
What part of "Not interested", do you not understand, Tarmik? Please let the licensing thing go.
Tarmik wrote:solars wrote:So, what is your problem with the license of minetest?
SNIPPY SNIP....
Tarmik wrote:(1) Let's take an example. I have made support for joystick in my own commercial software. In theory I could integrate that joystick driver in minetest (may be you support it already, but just to get the idea), but this narrows into question whether company for which I work for will allow this. And I suspect it wont. Now.... I could do this vice versa - develop on my free time joystick driver and embedd into minetest. Now... I would like to pick up that h/cpp code and embed it into commercial software - but LGPL will probably not allow this. (Or will it ?) - since code became part of minetest already.
Could I license joystick.h/cpp with MIT license and place it whereever I want or even with LGPL.
So minetest with LGPL and joystick driver with LGPL, both narrowed to specific module part.
Tarmik wrote:(2) But also about minetest as 3d rendering engine. What if I would like to upgrade it to my own 3d rendering engine, used for example for other cases besides gaming - I still would need to open up source codes of my own modifications, isn't ?
Tarmik wrote: That custom 3d engine cannot be exactly sold, since anyone can start competing with me - just by using my own source codes against me.
twoelk wrote:indeed I think that this very well is an important subject and I fear this horse is very vital no matter how hard the beating. (I really like that picture though)
twoelk wrote:So although the community may react very harsh to anything in the direction of turning any part of the existing Minetest system into a closed source project I would assume it should not be any problem to offer any closed source content that can connect to Minetest or plugin into it. Do keep in mind though that such content cannot be officially bundled with Minetest or hosted on it's websites.
Tarmik wrote:(1) Let's take an example. I have made support for joystick in my own commercial software. In theory I could integrate that joystick driver in minetest (may be you support it already, but just to get the idea), but this narrows into question whether company for which I work for will allow this. And I suspect it wont.
Tarmik wrote:Now.... I could do this vice versa - develop on my free time joystick driver and embedd into minetest. Now... I would like to pick up that h/cpp code and embed it into commercial software - but LGPL will probably not allow this. (Or will it ?) - since code became part of minetest already.
Tarmik wrote:Could I license joystick.h/cpp with MIT license and place it whereever I want or even with LGPL. So minetest with LGPL and joystick driver with LGPL, both narrowed to specific module part.
Tarmik wrote:This is about basic modularity.
Tarmik wrote:(2) But also about minetest as 3d rendering engine. What if I would like to upgrade it to my own 3d rendering engine, used for example for other cases besides gaming - I still would need to open up source codes of my own modifications, isn't ? That custom 3d engine cannot be exactly sold, since anyone can start competing with me - just by using my own source codes against me.
Tarmik wrote:This is about branching your code and turning it into commercial product.
Tarmik wrote:I'm bit surprised how many angry posts I see here.
Tarmik wrote:Can you give a proposal of how you see LGPL licensed software development in commercial approach, taking into account that company would stay alive more than 1 year.
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