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IT-Consultant: Charles Pegge => OxygenBasic => Topic started by: Theo Gottwald on November 09, 2023, 06:00:41 PM

Title: Question about the Licence for O2
Post by: Theo Gottwald on November 09, 2023, 06:00:41 PM
@Charles Pegge

QuoteWell, maybe you know the answer to my most important question: what license is OxygenBasic released under?
I just want to know if it can be used for commercial, closed-source software.

Thanks,
Ari
Mail is from: (Von: Ari Chelen <ari(at)derg.pink>

I would have registered him for the Forum, but he does not want to offer his contact data.
Answer here, then Ari can read it.
Title: Re: Question about the Licence for O2
Post by: Charles Pegge on November 09, 2023, 06:40:09 PM
Hi Ari and Theo,

OxygenBasic has no licensing restrictions, but also no liability. You are welcome to use it in a commercial application with closed source as long as your software is not harmful to its users.
Title: Re: Question about the Licence for O2
Post by: Nicola on November 09, 2023, 07:37:55 PM
Charles
Do you think we could write this in the help file?
Title: Re: Question about the Licence for O2
Post by: Theo Gottwald on November 09, 2023, 07:53:25 PM
This ยง will be interesting if the final program is to be used by US-Army and they calculate the bomb position with it.
So in fact the program is not harmful "to its users" (the army) ..... but in some way for their "customers". Those going to be "democratized". Like we see now in Syria.
Thinking about it, maybe you could explicitly state that its not to be used for military use :-)?
Title: Re: Question about the Licence for O2
Post by: Charles Pegge on November 09, 2023, 09:56:25 PM
Perhaps that could be changed to "not harmful to anyone". A more demanding standard and not directly enforceable on planet earth :)
Title: Re: Question about the Licence for O2
Post by: Theo Gottwald on November 10, 2023, 06:20:44 AM
Yes.  ;D