Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 09:11:26 -0500 (EST) From: Mithras To: horizonx@arbitragex.net Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, ArbitrageX@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: How possible and how easy? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 horizonx@arbitragex.net wrote: > One side interest of our project is to see if the bazaar style development > model can be extended to commercial semi-open source software and to > business building. The reason it's semi-open is because there are no more > compelling reasons to make public a profitable trading system than placing > your private credit card information under the GPL. I don't understand what you mean here at all. It sounds like your motivation for not making your source code 'fully' open is that would require users to copyleft their *credit card numbers*. If that is what you're worried about, have no fear. The GPL strictly refers to the code, not its data. Furthermore, consider that a copylefted public key encryption system exists, called gnuPGP. If such a GPL'd program wasn't secure for the data put into it, people wouldn't use it for security. That said, I don't understand why you wouldn't want to GPL your trading system. Sounds like an excellent case for bazaar development indeed - everyone who participates in the trading would be interested in seeing that the code was air-tight! ben taylor mithras@dhp.com / http://www.dhp.com/~mithras "If you buy a person a ticket, they'll see a movie that day. But if you show a person how to sneak in, they'll see movies for a lifetime." Mark Stanley, _Freefall_, http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple