The Regulator won't be available while I sort this GPL thing out.

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• That really is a shame it looks like a great tool - luckily I got my copy early.
  
  Hope you get these issues sorted out - there's a ton of products which don't honour GPL at all...anything which includes the #ZipLib for a start!
  
  Come on, surely someone in the community can offer a replacement for the GPL / non-GPL (the ComponentOne) components???
  

• It's not bizarre at all. It's up to the author to do with his rights whatever he wants to. It is probably more bizarre to use copyrighted components and change the license terms without asking the owner.
  

• I think you have a terrific tool in the making here. Get around this 'Open Sore/GPL' morass and you'll be better for it.
  

• Please contact the makers of SharpDevelop. Their #ziplib is GPL also but they have the following clause:
  
  
  
  As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
  
  

• That's why we like the BSD license.
  
  
  
  -Ingo