[Gem-dev] Re: [DigitalResearch] Re: OpenGEM and New Graphical OS

[Shane M. Coughlan]

> > You could also ask SCO (the owners of the GEM intellectual
> > property) to negotiate a non-GPL license for your use.   GPL is
> > non-exclusive.
>
> With the proviso that the new license would cover GEM/3, not the work
those
> of us who've worked on the code since the source release have done.  We'd
> have to be convinced to release our code under a second license too...
> Regards,
> Ben A L Jemmett.
> (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)

Yup.  Ben has a good point there.  So to get total control over GEM and
FreeGEM would require talking to SCO and the FreeGEM programmers.  It would
be no mean task, but not impossible.  I'm sure some form of profit-sharing
would get the attention of the FreeGEM programmers (it would be my attention
anyway), and maybe the same would apply to SCO.

Bear in mind that you could just accept that GEM is non-exclusive and use it
as a cheap and easy development platform.  If you make commercial software
to run on GEM you are still going to have commercial software.  It's just
that the GUI is opensource.  If you tell us more about what you would like
to do, I'm sure we can work something out quickly that would be to all our
benefit.

Regards

Shane
http://gem.shaneland.co.uk