Licensing of wrappers around C/C++ code under more restrictive licensing.

Roger Binns rogerb at rogerbinns.com
Mon Mar 1 15:10:24 EST 2004


> I am surprised you even went as far as looking at the license for OSE as
> in looking at "bitpim", not sure that what OSE had to offer in the way
> of functionality would even have made it appropriate for what you were
> doing.

I am putting in an XML-RPC over SSL interface to allow the BitPim software
and the cell phone to be on different machines.  OSE was attractive
because of the SOAP support as well.  (I think it would have later
been ruled out due to lack of SSL anyway).

Note section 7 of the Artistic License:

  7.  C or perl subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Package
      shall not be considered part of this Package.

> I would like to make a bit of money from the 14 years of work that I
> have put into all of this. :-)

Very understandable :-)  If only monetizing open source software was
easy!

Roger





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