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Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License
From: |
David Chisnall |
Subject: |
Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:50:48 +0100 |
Hi,
On 17 Sep 2013, at 22:45, Pirmin Braun <pb@intars.de> wrote:
> we plan to license the upcoming IntarS 7 under this license.
> What do you think about it?
What is your goal with this license? I don't think that it will work to
encourage contributors, because I certainly wouldn't send patches to a project
where I might suddenly find that I'd have to pay if I started using it a lot.
I'd also have the same reaction to using it: if I build a program using it and
deploy it, I don't want to suddenly find that I'd have to pay extra if it
became popular.
Is the goal simply to allow people to port it to other systems? Again, I'm not
sure why I'd put the effort into putting this in the FreeBSD ports tree and
ensuring that it worked (nor why Sebastian would do the same for OpenBSD) if
we'd end up having to pay if we used it in anything other than a very small
scale.
As others have pointed out, it is not OSI or FSF compliant. This may also mean
that it would be hard to distribute in binary form. As it's currently written,
it's an end-user license agreement, and so we'd have difficulty distributing
it, because we'd need to have a framework in place that would require the user
to accept the license before installing it. We do this with the Oracle / Sun
JDK and a few other packages already, and it requires manual intervention and
prevents us from distributing binary builds.
David
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, (continued)
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Pirmin Braun, 2013/09/18
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Liam Proven, 2013/09/18
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Pirmin Braun, 2013/09/18
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Liam Proven, 2013/09/18
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Markus Hitter, 2013/09/18
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Pirmin Braun, 2013/09/18
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Robert Slover, 2013/09/18
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Liam Proven, 2013/09/18
Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller, 2013/09/18
Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License,
David Chisnall <=
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Pirmin Braun, 2013/09/18
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Markus Hitter, 2013/09/18
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, David Chisnall, 2013/09/18
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Markus Hitter, 2013/09/18
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Pirmin Braun, 2013/09/18
- Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Ivan Vučica, 2013/09/18
Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Liam Proven, 2013/09/19
Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, David Chisnall, 2013/09/18
Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License, Liam Proven, 2013/09/19