[openbeos] Re: Developer Edition Vmware Image

Karl vom Dorff wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Howdy,
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 04:01 +1000, Zenja Solaja wrote:
> > > Hi Karl.  Great work with all the haiku images on HaikuWare.
> > >
> > > May I suggest a few additions to the Developer Edition super pack:
> > >
> > > 1) Since you are including BeIDE (great), can you also create a
> > > directory called /boot/develop/BeIDE/tools, which is in fact a 
> > > symlink to /boot/develop/tools/gcc-2.95.3-haiku-080323/bin.  This 
> > > allows BeIDE to build projects.
> >
> > This is a question to Karl: do you have permission to redistribute 
> > BeIDE? If you don't, I highly object that you include this or any other 
> > BeOS IP in the Haiku packages that you are distributing.
> 
> 
> Right, I'll remove that.  Anything else in there? What about 
> PackageBuilder, Serial Connect?

Karl, you could answer this yourself. If you don't have permission from 
Be/Palm/ACCESS to distribute this, then it is just not legal. The BeOS 
Personal Edition comes with a clear license that says you can only 
distribute as is, not changed. Taking parts of it and distributing them 
would count as "changed" in my book.

All that being said, ACCESS seems to be pretty liberal and understanding. 
They gave the BeOS Max guy the green light to do what he does. So maybe all 
you have to do is simply ask them. Explain what you are doing and I am sure 
you have quite a good chance of getting permission.

However, just going ahead and doing it because *you* think it is ok, is not 
what you should do, IHMO. Someone (ie at ACCESS) not very involved with 
Haiku could completely misunderstand this (your package) as comming from 
the project itself.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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