[jugglemaster] Jugglemaster for Pocket PC (JMPocket)

Chunky Kibbles chunky at icculus.org
Tue Jun 22 15:20:52 EDT 2004


On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:55:45PM +0800, Per Johan Groland wrote:
> >> I'm not familiar with the BSD license, and I seem to remember us
> >> discussing GPL earlier. What is the reason BSD was chosen over
> >> GPL? Also, I don't mean to sound grumpy, but since my copyright
> >> is also on the code, it would be nice to have notified me before
> >> changing the license...
> >
> > Sorry, thought we'd discussed it previously, and you said it'd be ok,
> > so long as Ken was ok with it.
> >
> > I chose bsd since that way it's more compatible with other stuff. GPL,
> > while lovely, is a wee bit prohibitive. I had in mind, for example, the
> > qt-embedded platform [There is already a qt port, it just needs a bit
> > of work, and GPL wouldn't have been terribly friendly with it]
> 
> It's very possible that my memory is bad... I guess BSD is ok, after all
> my intent with writing jmlib in the first place was to get JuggleMaster
> ported to as many platforms as possible.

Yeah :-)

> I'm a bit allergic when it comes to reading license agreements though,
> got any tips on where I can read about the differences between these
> different licenses. Also, does this mean that we'll release everything
> in CVS (for now that would be wxwindows, pocket pc and that ascii
> platform you ported it to (hehe)) as BSD or will there still be separate
> licenses for every port?

Broadly speaking, jmlib is under BSD [the modified one, actually, to
make it GPL compatible], and everything else is under GPL.

LICENSE basically says this.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

Uhm. There's probably lots of references out there about what various
licenses are. Modified BSD is permissive enough to let people use it in
non-GPL software.

LGPL is similarly permissive, but can be a grey area, notably consoles,
so I didn't want to use that.

> I've only recently added my email to this mailing list... I hope all new
> platforms in the works will be announced here, I'd like to keep up to
> date.

Well, if I hadn't announced it previously, I'm vaguely working on a
gamecube port, but every time I sit down near the gamecube, I end up
playing Zelda instead. :-)

> > Of course. Be my guest :-)
> > The default should probably remain 630, though, otherwise some of the
> > patterns in the default patterns file won't work.
> 
> Ok, I'll do the reverse of what I asked for then, leaving 630 as the default,
> and 35 balls as an option.

OK Cool :-)

Gary (-;



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