Must publish vs. must supply

[Chris F Clark]

Abe Kornellis is not alone in desiring an open source license like
this for precisely the dual license structure.  As a vendor of
proprietary software, I would like an open source license that
prevents or atleast substantially "discourages" commercial users who
wish to use it for closed source applications, but allows them to use
it when developing open source applications.

This would allow us to give away our library in open source form.
Thus, increasing the supply of open source materials, while still
preserving our ability to derive our revenues from commercial
customers (even if that revenue might drop).

And, yes to answer an ealier question from John Cowan, we would like a
license with legal teeth to compell that open source usage, since that
teeth is the same teeth we would use to extract the commercial revenue
which is our current livelihood (i.e. if they weren't willing to open
source their program we would happily sell them the closed source
licensed copy at a reasonable fee, just as we do today).

We also realize that any license is not perfect as truly commited
people will find ways to cheat and steal.  We just want to help those
that are honest understand which doors are locked and which are not.

Hope this helps,
-Chris

*****************************************************************************
Chris Clark                    Internet   :  compres at world.std.com
Compiler Resources, Inc.       Web Site   :  http://world.std.com/~compres  
3 Proctor Street               voice      :  (508) 435-5016
Hopkinton, MA  01748  USA      fax        :  (508) 435-4847  (24 hours)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3