From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt licensing
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:14:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110302111407.GA5008@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimw=D1va2a5eBC-vqTfyHw3LWGRvR9-VNXjyV+D@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:08:35PM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote:
> 2011/3/2 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>:
> > I was about to say that, though I'm pro strong copyleft (AKA GPL when
> > fits) myself, though I highly doubt, for practical reasons ;), that any
> > one can take a BSD licensed ConTeXt and make a closed source derivative
> > with any substantial improvement.
>
> That may be legally possible. But who wants to support such a beast?
> Seriously: Using ConTeXt mkIV without the possibility of support by Hans
> et.al. is a desaster waiting to happen.
That what I meant. Actually if someone succeeds doing that, it is well
earned money :p
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Egyptian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-02 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 21:37 Joseph Wright
2011-03-01 22:09 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-01 22:11 ` Martin Schröder
2011-03-02 0:38 ` Miguel Queiros
2011-03-02 7:30 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-03-02 10:30 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-03-02 10:40 ` Matija Šuklje
2011-03-02 11:29 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-03-02 10:41 ` Martin Schröder
2011-03-02 10:56 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-03-02 11:08 ` Martin Schröder
2011-03-02 11:14 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2011-03-02 11:10 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-03-02 12:40 ` Hans Hagen
2011-03-03 2:49 Norbert Preining
2011-03-03 12:56 ` Matija Šuklje
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