gEDA-dev: Re: GEDA development ....

[al davis]

On Tuesday 08 May 2007, al davis wrote:
> > Of course you'd have to reconcile the licensing agreements
> > of Si2 (keepers of the OpenAccess code) versus the GPL...
>
> Their license is deliberately incompatible with GPL.  Very
> incompatible.

Let me clarify ..  It has been a long time since I read it.  As 
I recall, it is a closed-club license.  Members of the club get 
to use it any way they want, and get the right to make and sell 
proprietary derivative works.  Non-members can only use it by 
buying a product from one of the members, and do not get 
source.

It is not in our best interest to join the club, but it might 
make sense to have an affiliate that is a member that can 
provide an interface.  The interface will probably need to be 
distributed without source.