Dual licensing

[Marius Amado Alves]

> Why dual licensing should be connected to *closed* source?
> You find many examples, such as Trolltech or MySQL, proposing such 
> dual-licensing schemes. Not bcause customers WANT closed source, but 
> simply because they also want to make internal develpment or internal 
> use which does not fit the GPL or other Open Source license.

Rubbish. All internal development or use fits any open source licence.

> If you only propose GPL, you cut yourself from companies who would 
> like to use your software, but must use your software or make it a 
> subproject of non Open Source compatible software, or even, 
> basically, cause they think their specific knowlege in a particular 
> field cannot be shared.

This is making my case.

> Without closed source AND dual licensing, really free software would 
> never (or at least not before the next glaciation) make its own bed 
> in most companies.

Ditto.

> The 3 models are acceptable, dual-liecnsing does 
> not really break Open Source paradigms.

The "that's the way it is" conclusion. As I said, possibly a valid one. 
Thanks.


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