Re: Oh No! Open Source Again!

Timo Schneider wrote:
>
> I can't find a LICENCE-file in the RosAsm zipfile on [1], but there it
> says "RosAsm is free and GPLed.". How can a GPL-licenced product violate
> the Open-Source definition? (Despite not distributing the licence, but I
> will not insist that rosasm does this, as I didn't check very carefully.)
>
> Regards,
> Timo

Exactly what license covers the RosAsm assembler has been a good
question around here. Rene & Company claim it's a dual-license GPL/RPL
(RosAsm public license). But as the two licenses are incompatible, it's
a somewhat interesting suggestion on their part.

You can Google back through this newsgroup for many long-winded
discussions of the RPL, e.g.,

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.lang.asm/browse_frm/thread/e3c545708681f0f6/e91a0ac24d362297?q=RPL&rnum=6&hl=en#e91a0ac24d362297

Bottom line is that no one really takes the RPL seriously except the
RosAsm crowd. It puts so many onerous restrictions on the code that any
normal person will just apply the GPL and be done with in. The real
question is "why did the RosAsm camp go through the exercise of
creating the RPL if they weren't going to enforce it?"
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

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Relevant Pages

  • Re: When will Betov come clean on GPL ?
    ... Here is the notice that appears at the beginning of the RosAsm source ... In B_U_ASM he lists version 2 of the GPL. ... He also lists the RosAsm license, but the RosAsm source code itself ... claims it is covered under GPL, not RPL. ...
    (alt.lang.asm)
  • Re: When will Betov come clean on GPL ?
    ... work is GPL or Betov gets his ear burnt. ... Here is the notice that appears at the beginning of the RosAsm source ... See the GNU General Public License included in B_U_Asm.exe for more details. ... claims it is covered under GPL, not RPL. ...
    (alt.lang.asm)
  • Re: When will Betov come clean on GPL ?
    ... > Since all of the code in RosAsm was not written by Betov himself he has ... > participate) and release that portion under a different license. ... But I still don't see where the RPL is actually applied to RosAsm other ... that was a lame clause in the contract). ...
    (alt.lang.asm)
  • Re: Between Assemblers
    ... >> under theyr own license. ... >> based on RosAsm code, or wants to build your own disassembler based on ... This is "less restrictive" than GPL. ... the RPL is used as the new license? ...
    (alt.lang.asm)
  • Re: The RPL
    ... The confusion exists in the comment "comes with RosAsm." ... > RosAsm package. ... to be released under the same license. ... > people could do whatever they want with HLA disasm. ...
    (alt.lang.asm)