[Bug 166427] Review Request: inform - Compiler for Z-machine story files

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Summary: Review Request: inform - Compiler for Z-machine story files


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166427


chris at chrisgrau.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|                            |NOTABUG
OtherBugsDependingO|163776, 182235              |
              nThis|                            |




------- Additional Comments From chris at chrisgrau.com  2006-05-10 19:54 EST -------
I contacted Graham Nelson regarding this issue.  He has his reasons for not
wanting to use an OSI-approved license.  In his words,

> I am nervous of the GPL, and its cognates. Not because I dislike
> the principle of thing, or do not share the generally egalitarian
> outlook - but because I want to keep the definition of the language
> stable. I therefore don't want to give people the right to create
> derivative works. All the other rights are fine - open source,
> compile it yourself, distribute it yourself, no fees or patents,
> use it even commercially without permission, sure. I just don't
> want Inform to be like awk, with no copy of awk compatible
> with any other on points of detail.

I can understand where he's coming from on this and I'm not convinced I want to
change his mind.  I'm going to go ahead and let the issue drop.  I appreciate
the attention from both Jason and Hans.

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