Dual licensing
Marius Amado Alves
amado.alves at netcabo.pt
Tue Jun 8 06:11:24 UTC 2004
>>Kindly tell what point you feel I'm trying to evade.
>
> That your "SDC licence" plainly is proprietary.
The SDC Conditions v. 2 breach exactly clause 6 of the OSD (*). If
"proprietary" is the right term to describe (informally) a 9/10 open
source license, then OK, the SDC Conditions v. 2 are proprietary.
BTW, that's a technicality that I believe can be solved. That is, it is
possible to revise the SDC Conditions, or make a new license, that does
not breach clause 6, and still implements the SDC philosophy--which is
NOT "proprietary".
One way to do it is simply to elliminate the distinction between
commercial and non-commercial, and charge everybody. The reason I don't
want do go that way, is because I want to offer the software gratis to
certain uses, e.g. academic. In my opinion this scenario clearly reveals
a drawback of (the strong interpretation of) OSD clause 6--but please
this is just a fool's opinion, don't pay any attention :-)
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(*) And this only under a certain 'strong' interpretation of clause 6,
namely one whereby "restrict" includes "requiring a fee".
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