Re: Commercial/Shareware and Extensions ?

John Droggitis wrote:
> All the extensions bundled with ActiveTcl you should be good to use
> without any licensing issues.

Although what John says is almost certainly true, note that the free
ActiveTcl license DOES NOT entitle you to redistribute ActiveTcl or the
extensions that come bundled with it (see Term #2 of the license
agreement,
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/license_agreement.plex).
If you need to distribute any of those extensions, you can compile your
own shared libraries (since ActiveState has rights to what they've
compiled, but not to the source code) or talk to ActiveState about a
distribution license. Or consider asking your users to install
ActiveTcl before running your software.

It would be a really good idea for you to check the license of any
extension you want to distribute, regardless of whether it gets bundled
with ActiveTcl. Your customers will expect that you've conducted due
diligence, and there's no substitute for having personally read all the
relevant licenses (except maybe having your lawyer do it for you :) )
Received on Thu Sep 29 14:23:57 2005