Public Domain

I’ve been asked in the past why I chose to release Fox Trails to the public domain. I mean, why not sell it as a commercial product or at least ensure that it’s “protected” by an open-source licensing agreement?

Maybe I’m just a nice guy, maybe I haven’t imbibed any gpl kool-aid recently, or perhaps it’s because I would like to see the product succeed . Truth is, I didn’t want to put any artificial limits on how the product could be used, and I didn’t want to deal with the issues required to produce a commercial product.

I think Fox Trails is a really cool web development framework and I wanted to provide a tool that foxpro developers could use in any way that they wanted to without any limitations.