Licensing Model: open downstream apps or proprietary license

[Mitchell Baker]

Lawrence E. Rosen wrote:

>Mitchell Baker wrote:
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>>The Open Source Applications Foundation 
>>(http://www.osafoundation.org) 
>>is planning the 0.1 release of Chandler (a personal 
>>information manager) 
>>shortly, hopefully by the end of April.  OSAF's plan of record for 
>>licensing is to follow the model used by MySQL:  recipients 
>>must either 
>>(a) make their entire application available under the GPL or other 
>>approved open source license, or (b) get a commercial license from 
>>OSAF.  I'm very interested in the thinking of this group about this 
>>model.  The plan is reasonably firm but not set in stone, so I'd 
>>appreciate hearing about potential pitfalls as well as benefits.
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>I've always liked that model.  :-)  /Larry Rosen
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Excellent.  That's good to know.

Mitchell

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