adding restrictive terms to LGPL

Lior W. opensource.*.nwo at neverbox.com
Wed Dec 15 17:27:23 UTC 2010


>If your university business office wants a way to commercialize your 
software, explain dual licensing a la MySQL.
I think it's because they want to profit from their code, but also make 
sure no one else profits from it as well.

Let's say 100 people sell the same GNU GPL software, but only one 
of them is the original coder. GNU's philisophy is that the original coder 
would still be the one who makes the most profit. Why? 
Because most people would rather buy from the original coder. But the 
universities you describe prefer to forcefully outlawing the other 99 
people.




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