Release comercial application's sources as GPL but with restriction in usage

Evan Prodromou evan at bad.dynu.ca
Tue Feb 15 12:24:02 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-14-02 at 19:43 -0500, Kevin Bedell wrote:

> Companies that are successful with dual licensing strategies usually
> have products that are embedded in other products and distributed to
> end-users. For example, the Berkeley DB is a popular embedded database
> and is also licensed by Sleepycat for commercial use.

I think you mean "proprietary" use. The Open Source license is for
commercial use, too.

~Evan

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