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The only reason why clean has always been confidential is this: "Developers wishing to distribute commercial applications (either publicly or privately) can pu

by rixed 9y ago

The only reason why clean has always been confidential is this: "Developers wishing to distribute commercial applications (either publicly or privately) can purchase a commercial license." Although there seams to be a dual license now? Can anybody with more understanding of legal verbiage confirm that if I choose to use the bsd+lgpl then the above restriction don't hold anymore?

rixed 9y ago
No change, according to c2wiki[0] it has always been phrased like that. [0]: http://wiki.c2.com/?CleanLanguage http://wiki.c2.com/?CleanLanguage
pmontra 9y ago
According to the wiki linked into the other answer > The company is not claiming that you can't sell your programs. The licensing only matters when it comes to modifying the compiler itself. which it makes sense. The language runtime is LGPL but the program you write is anything you want. At http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean24/CleanLicenseConditions.txt http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean24/CleanLicenseCondition... > Clean is available under a dual license. Users can choose which of these two licenses they wish to operate under: > 1 The Simplified BSD License (see below) applies to the libraries, runtime system and examples, the LGPL the standard GNU Lesser General Open Source license (see below) to the rest. The libraries, runtime system and examples consist of the files in the following directories (including subdirectories of these directories): > - Libraries and Examples (versions for Windows) > - StdEnv, data and examples (versions for Linux and Mac OS X) > - libraries, RuntimeSystem and CleanExamples (source code). > 2 A commercial license (see below) that can be purchased. Information on that license can be obtained from [check the original document for name and email] So, it should be ok as using any LGPL library on any proprietary program. I wonder if they are making any money from the commercial license or this confusion is only harming the language.

by rixed 9y ago

rixed 9y ago

No change, according to c2wiki[0] it has always been phrased like that. [0]: http://wiki.c2.com/?CleanLanguage http://wiki.c2.com/?CleanLanguage

pmontra 9y ago

According to the wiki linked into the other answer > The company is not claiming that you can't sell your programs. The licensing only matters when it comes to modifying the compiler itself. which it makes sense. The language runtime is LGPL but the program you write is anything you want. At http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean24/CleanLicenseConditions.txt http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean24/CleanLicenseCondition... > Clean is available under a dual license. Users can choose which of these two licenses they wish to operate under: > 1 The Simplified BSD License (see below) applies to the libraries, runtime system and examples, the LGPL the standard GNU Lesser General Open Source license (see below) to the rest. The libraries, runtime system and examples consist of the files in the following directories (including subdirectories of these directories): > - Libraries and Examples (versions for Windows) > - StdEnv, data and examples (versions for Linux and Mac OS X) > - libraries, RuntimeSystem and CleanExamples (source code). > 2 A commercial license (see below) that can be purchased. Information on that license can be obtained from [check the original document for name and email] So, it should be ok as using any LGPL library on any proprietary program. I wonder if they are making any money from the commercial license or this confusion is only harming the language.