Re: applets, applications and static declarations
John B. Matthews wrote:
In article <4b57a90a$0$270$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
Arne Vajh??j <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
On 20-01-2010 11:41, John B. Matthews wrote:
In this related example, I factored out some initialization into a
common method, initContainer():
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews/subway>
The code is nice.
Thanks. It's my "Hello, world" signed-applet/JWS-application:
<http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Learn_to_Say_%22Hello%2C_World%22>
But "Distributed under the terms of the GPL" - do you
really need to put demo code under GPL??
Overkill? It's just one with which I'm most familiar. I also, use LGPL
and modified GPL. I should probably consider others:
<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category>
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/>
And why shouldn't he enforce copyright on demo code? Why is that inadvisable?
Is it not his original work? Might he not want to retain ownership in case
he wants to reuse it, say in another work or for an article?
It's not like it's difficult to add a license notice to demo code. Seems to
me the default should be to include license terms, not try to decide if this
or that code "really" needs it.
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Lew