Open Source Liscense

[Ogart]

Greetings:

I've been following the Open Source Code movement for the last year or so. This is obviously a topic than can incur rancourous debate -- I'm of the opinion that open source software is appropriate for some applications and probably inappropriate for others (some banking applications, defense department software the calculates bomb trajectory, etc).

My question to the forum is this: Is software developed in a proprietary environment such as MS Access or MS VBasic.Net also "proprietary". I'm not a coder for a living, so I honestly am sort of confused by this.

Thanks in advance for your time.

-->Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

 

[psemianonymous]

I am also interested in this topic, as I've wondered myself if we can GPL a database application if it uses proprietary components (i.e. built on proprietary Access format and uses references to proprietary libraries/references). Mostly, though, in practice "open source" Access code is provided "free for any use" (see the Microsoft MVP's Access web site for an example of this

http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0001.htm

) - more like the BSD distribution (though not officially so) than the GPL - so it depends on what you mean by "open" when you mean "open source."

Anyone else pipe in on this subject?

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