[iyonix-support] Re: iyonix 2 or not

Hi,

well, if Castle's decision towards closing down is irrevocable, let me
come back to Peter Naull's statement yesterday:

>So, I urge Castle again to consider and hasten the licensing situation.  Not
> only with complete RISC OS 5 sources, but to remove the stifling licensing
> conditions (i.e, non-OSS compatible terms)  which not only prevent a
> variety of innovation (see David Given's work in csa.p) but also strongly
> put off all but the most die-hard RISC OS developers, and certainly not
> outside interest as Castle perhaps hoped for originally.   There was plenty
> of evidence from other projects that have not fully embraced OSS that
> this gambit simply wouldn't work, but there's still time for Castle to
> rectify this.

To begin with, I must confess I am pretty incompetent in these
matters. However, I understand Castle's position being reluctant to
give away for free RiscOS5 which is the result of their work at a
cost. I amy be out of the way (and then I am p^retty confident you
will tell me) but why not create what is called in UK a "Charity" (in
France it would be "association a but non lucratif selon la loi de
1901", we republicans love complicated expressions) where the people
interested would place some reasonable amount of money in order to buy
the rights from Castle and give the suitable rights to ensure a future
to RiscOS?
Does this make any sense?

Jean

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