qualifier

[fp at casabellagallery.com]

Walter replied:

> 
> fp at casabellagallery.com wrote:
> 
> > http://www.fpgroups.com/index.php?Target=code
> > 
> > Please let me know if you find this script useful.
> 
> Good $iety!!
> 

Thanks!  Not bad for something I put together in less 
than two weeks ...  Give me a couple of months and I'll
give you a new fpGoogle   :)  Should I copyright that?

> The license header is poison. As an active contributor on Apache, HPL/GPL, and 
> MIT licensed projects, if I even saw any code with that header I would have to 
> claw my eyes out. And my eyes are crap these days. Not as bad as JE's, but 
> pretty crappy.
> 
> The best system I have used is for the Apache Open For Business "ofBiz" project. 
> In order to contribute code snippets the contributor has to agree to releease 
> any patent claims and agree to the Apache software foundation's V.2.0 license.
> 
>  From that point anyone take take that code and use it in any closed or open 
> source application freely. No one gets mad. Everyone is happy.
> 
> As it stands now, if someone were to take your qualifier code and use it modifed 
> or as is, they are in violation of your license unless they are clients of "The 
> Integrated Flooring Management System".
> 
> Solve this hurdle. Get a license that works for you. Make sure code contributed 
> is not tainted.
> 

My bad, that's my standard header on scripts delivered with my system.  I will remove
it from my post.

The code is there for all to have, modify, post back to the group ...

Regards,


Jose Lereburs