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Animated Mouse Pointer - Need Development Help

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Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: ivan on April 28, 2014, 03:59:51 pm ---Is what Eugene is doing - linking in code and not supplying the source for that code - even legal under the GPL licence?

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Most consider it to not be complying with the license. I don't think it has ever been argued in court and may vary in different jurisdictions.

Boris:
Uh-huh, ic the only req'd lib from ecort is lange, so may it be removed by diffing the sources Martin will, I hope, provide, and Gorbunoff's ones, and then just finding and removing all lange-related changes from the diff?

I assume, two evenings?

Eugene Gorbunoff:
OK.. this thread demonstrates current state of os2world.com site.

Martin Iturbide:
Thanks Andreas. I had sent you the source code to your email.

About the licensing. I don't know under which conditions did the original author gave the source code to Eugene. I can not know if it is legal or not.

Dave, Ivan. Eugene released the derivative work under LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) (NOT GPL). If Eugene got permission from the original author to make it LGPL, what he is doing (linking it to Non-GPL software) is legal as I understand that license as far as I know.  It will be interesting to know from LGPL which licenses can you use to make derivative work.

In this case the original author gave me permission to release it under the Apache V2 license, which also opens the door that it derivate works can be turned to GNU GPL, since it is compatible. (but you can not go back from GPL to Apache).

But I prefer a more open source implementation of "Animated Mouse Pointer" that does not depend on "eCo Software runtime" , since it is a close source library.  I believe that if we remain using eComStation-OS2 until today is because open source has allow us to migrate more software to this platform. We should not produce more close source software that in the future will have the risk to became abandonware, like all the old OS/2 software we have.

Regards.

Boris:

--- Quote from: Eugene Gorbunoff on April 28, 2014, 05:46:49 pm ---OK.. this thread demonstrates current state of os2world.com site.

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I really like the current state of os2world.com. And I don't like the complete indifference to GNU GPLv2 violation by you that you demonstrate. Fixed. Was unproven.


--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on April 28, 2014, 06:08:23 pm ---But I prefer a more open source implementation of "Animated Mouse Pointer" that does not depend on "eCo Software runtime" , since it is a close source library.  I believe that if we remain using eComStation-OS2 until today is because open source has allow us to migrate more software to this platform. We should not produce more close source software that in the future will have the risk to became abandonware, like all the old OS/2 software we have.

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I agree to every word.

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