Dual licensing

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves at netcabo.pt> writes:

> > It is clear to me that OSD #6 does not prohibit direct sale of the
> > software.  I've never heard anybody seriously claim otherwise.
> 
> It's another thing. By clause 6, you must either sell to all
> recipients, or give away to all recipients. I think this makes
> software sale incompatible with bazaar-like development. But I must
> ponder this and other things I've learned in this discussion. Thanks.

Software sale may indeed be incompatible with bazaar-like development.
The point is that it is not incompatible with open source licensing.
Open source does not imply bazaar.  As I said earlier, the cathedral
model of development is just as much open source, and was indeed used
by the FSF for a long time.

> > Certainly neither the GPL nor the BSD license prohibit sale of the
> > software.
> 
> Then they should stop saying "because this software is provided free
> of charge..."

Neither license says that.  Read them again.

Ian
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