Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License

[Pirmin Braun]

Am Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:23:20 +0200
schrieb "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> :

> 
> Am 17.09.2013 um 23:45 schrieb Pirmin Braun:
> 
> > we plan to license the upcoming IntarS 7 under this license.
> > What do you think about it?
> 
> 
> I have been thinking for a long time about the same issue with QuantumSTEP...
> 
> Did you look into running two different projects? One under some real open 
> source licence
> and another one commercially licensed. I think MySQL does (did?) it that way 
> and Qt/Qtopia
> was the same.

yes, dual licensing would be another option, but we wanted to avoid that. It's 
confusing and more complicated.
MySQL was different: there was a commercial license for the LGPL client library 
whereas you could build GPL software using their GPL client library (as we did 
until now). Now there is the free LGPL MariaDB client library, that enables us 
to think about a new own license option.
Btw. it was Monty on his keynote at FrosCon who sparked our thoughts into this 
direction.

> 
> Another issue to consider is how you handle patches submitted from persons 
> not doing
> contract work for your company. They will have copyright of their patches. 
> I.e. you must be
> careful in either rejecting them, or paying and having some copyright 
> assignment.

sure, but it didn't happen all those years. If there should come patches 
contributions now, we will have no problem paying for them.

> 
> BR,
> Nikolaus
> 


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