BlueJ has always been distributed under a “free-for-any-use/free-for-non-commercial-distribution” license. We never bothered to come up with more detailed rules. Generally, I don’t like having to deal with licensing much.
But today, I came across a license that was new to me: The Beer License. Now, there is an interesting idea!
The Beer License says that in return for using this software, you will “buy the author a beer should you ever meet him/her”.
Well, that’s a license I can relate to! Maybe we should use that for BlueJ?
(On the other hand, I don’t believe changing licenses for existing systems to more restrictive rules is fair. So maybe not.) But maybe for Greenfoot…
Hi mik, If I remember correctly you still need to buy me a beer from your time her in DK. But maybe we can call it even
Talk to you later
Mads
why don’t you consider GPL and make the sources free?
yo! absolutely! I owe you more than a beer. I learned (tried to learn) java 5 years ago with a college professor that insisted that the only way to write java was with a text editor. Learning curve was much, much longer. I love BlueJ! Thank you for inventing it!