[License-discuss] FreeAndFair license

[Henrik Ingo]

I have seen github repositories with MIT or GPL dual licensing
(essentially same as what you say). The explanation was that they
wanted to use MIT (as is common in Node/JavaScript circles) but also
wanted to be GPL compatible, so had added that as an explicit option.
(The particular project then dropped the GPL license, after assurances
that MIT is considered to be GPL compatible.)

henrik

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 1:45 AM, Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your comments, Joe. Please let me know how OSI responds to your
> license questions.
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> I'd like to make one other comment on dual licensing. I support that as a
> commercial business strategy. But the only practical dual licensing
> strategies for a licensor that makes sense to me are choices between the GPL
> or AGPL and a complex (and perhaps more profitable) commercial license. Your
> "FreeAndFair" choice between the GPL and the BSD – assuming it is a fair
> dual licensing choice and not, as in your license, a discriminatory
> provision between categories of users – presents an obvious choice for a
> licensee to make: The BSD is always a better license than the GPL.
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> I am surprised by offers at GitHub and elsewhere of open source software to
> the public under "either the BSD or the GPL". Take the BSD! It is fully
> compatible with the GPL anyway. Always take the more generous offer of
> software!
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> I'm also copying some friends at OSI, but I'm not copying your email.
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> /Larry
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> Lawrence Rosen
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> Rosenlaw (www.rosenlaw.com)
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> 3001 King Ranch Rd., Ukiah, CA 95482
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> Cell: 707-478-8932
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> From: Joe Kiniry [mailto:kiniry at freeandfair.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 10:55 AM
> To: lrosen at rosenlaw.com
> Cc: Brent Turner <turnerbrentm at gmail.com>; Alan Dechert <dechert at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: FreeAndFair license
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> <snip>
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