Simon wrote:
Christopher Petrilli <petrilli@amber.org> writes:
probably corret the exact legal situation, but basically DC bought an unlimited license to give it away ... say thank you :-)
they *bought* it ? really ?
I know that a number of people responded to this already, including Paul. However, he didn't give as concrete response as this direct question requests. The answer is _yes_, Digital Creations most definitely paid _real money_ to Sam for the right to embed parts of Medusa in ZServer. However, the intent of the license is to allow unlimited, free, Open Source(tm) use, within the Zope environment. If you don't intend to use Zope, then you should be licensing Medusa separately from Sam Rushing. We highly recommend it (obviously), and have put our money where our mouth is. The reason that this is an important question to answer is that we are so committed to the Open Source movement, that not only do we release stuff that we wrote, but when appropriate, we will invest hard cash to further the community as well (ZServer being but one example).