Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Pirmin Braun wrote:
> we plan to license the upcoming IntarS 7 under this license.
> What do you think about it?
I'm not an expert, but I to feel like it will not work, that is, not be 
considered a OS licese.

Have you checked OSI licenses? The last time I looked for a suitable 
license, I was already puzzled by how difficult it was to effectively 
"dual license" between commercial and non-c. users. Look at the maze 
here: http://opensource.org/

I would directly write OSI or even the FSF for the needs you haev, to 
see if there is a way to incorporate them.

I think that it is nice to have such enterprise software open-sourced, 
however I think it is quite bad publicity if a "bad" or "fake" 
open-source license gets used (wthink of the original Apple and Sun 
licenses) because it may anger many and give space to critique.

Riccardo