Licensing Model: open downstream apps or proprietary license
Mitchell Baker
Mitchell at osafoundation.org
Fri Mar 28 04:58:23 UTC 2003
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.
>>
>>
>
>I've always liked that model. :-) /Larry Rosen
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Excellent. That's good to know.
Mitchell
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