interesting, hmmm. As i have now my new laptop just awaiting my service provider to get me online, I will definately check it out. Will install javafibs anyway but no harm in having a go! Cheers Dik, im happy to give any feedback etc.

... select GPL ...

After reviewing them all, ( http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category )
BuckoFIBS is now GPL compliant.
I really wanted to do the NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3, but it wasn't appropriate.
Seriously though, i was half way through adding the MPL to the source, but i like the anti-tivoization of the GPL.
I was hoping one of the licenses would have a clause, "If you make changes, you must make a 'best effort' to push your changes back up to the original author".  But the licenses are all about pushing changes downstream and it's up to the original author to (possibly) hunt them down.

dik

If you think about it, much of any FIBS client is not really dependent whether it is a bot or a GUI client. Traditional GPL only requires you to open your changes to the public if you DISTRIBUTE your derived software. This doesn't hold for bots, so it is perfectly legal to fork a bot from your client without giving back any change into the public domain.

There is a version of GPL 3 which addresses this problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License

It is from the FSF and identical to GPL 3, except that it covers the case of offering public services (such as bots) derived from GPLed code. It's the one I for my own work consider most suited in the FIBS context.

Version 0.3 looks like this:
http://www.buckosoft.com/BuckoFIBS/screenshots.php