LASERAY "I've read the below comments made by the developer of OmegaT+ with sympathy, but after his appreciative words about the philosophy behind FOSS it's odd to see his licence not being a free software licence and OmegaT ("open source propireity") being under GPL. Perhaps I'm ignorant of something." Yes, you missed something. The OPL license is a free license. It is not 100% compatible with the GPL, but it is only being used for documentation on OmegaT+. All the code in OmegaT+ is under the GPL. So no real problem exists. What you should consider is that OmegaT uses code/libraries that are not completely compatible with the GPL. That is they do not practice due diligence to ensure that the extra stuff they use has proper licenses before they add it in. They go ahead and slap stuff in without any real thought. I have called them on this numbers of times, only to be treated badly for it. They removed some stuff I pointed out and then later put it back in or just continue on ignorantly. Then look at their use of a trademark on "OmegaT". Trademarks are completely anathema to free software. I argued this with them numbers of times and have even read articles recently that say the same things as I have been saying in this regard for a few years. Trademarks go against what free software is about, just as software patents and completely proprietary (the correct spelling) copyrights do. In spite of this OmegaT keeps going along as if there is no question in this that they have a right to a trademark (they are not even a company or other commercial interest, which is what trademarks are for). It is quite ridiculous in that they blatantly misrepresent themselves as being about FOSS, then get a German trademark (i.e., only applies in Germany), and act like the trademark is worldwide. I have called them on this lie numbers of times and never get any response. I could be quite happy to just make changes to the fork I created and keep it all to myself, but I put out a version out for others to benefit from. OmegaT on the other hand is now more about getting others to come along and do the programming work for them, for the personal benefit of the main users of OmegaT (the project members themselves). The majority of project members on OmegaT have not written one line of code that goes into the program. Yet these same people have no problem putting it up on a pedestal as if it is near perfect when any questions arise as to its quality. How would they know? (Version 2.0.2b) |