Which DUAL Licence should I choose.

[Thomas Schneider]

Hello Rick, and all,
    what about a *paragraph* in the LICENCE Saying:

When ThSITC does discontinue support for the Software in question,
the Software becomes automatically Free Open Source (FOSS) under the 
standard OSi Licence xxxxx ?

Thomas.
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Am 31.07.2011 22:13, schrieb Rick Moen:
> Quoting Thomas Schneider (Thomas.Schneider at thsitc.com):
>
>> Hello David again,
>>
>>     First thanks for your advise. :-)
>>     Second I *do* want to pay royalties to Contributor's (measured in
>> number of contributed source code lines), when possible.
>>
>> The whole intent would be to get a Network of IT Professional's
>> maintaining (and selling)  the Software in question.
>>
>> I'm currenlty just writing an Installation Procedure which will
>> require Identification of all User's of the Software,
>> but am still struggling around with the Licence issues.
> If you want to understand how the key concepts of open source might
> apply to the software work you are developing, imagine a scenario where,
> ten years after your software's introduction, you cease development and
> end-of-life your product -- but a large third-party user and developer
> community wishes for the code to continue.  For decades, under the
> prevalent proprietary licensing common to software, this widely felt
> wish was futile:  Nobody but the copyright owner had the legal right to
> further develop and release the code, let alone to redistribute it with
> or without charge, let alone to adapt and use it for any purpose.
>
> Those of us who were excited but then dismayed by the rise and then fall
> of DeScribe, WordPerfect, etc. got tired of this cycle of availability
> and withdrawal.  Open source was and is a permanent solution to the
> problem:  A codebase whose licence permits third-party forking by anyone
> without restrictions on usage or required payments is one that can
> outlast the disappearance, change of policies, or other obstacles tied
> to any specific maintainer including the original coder.
>
> Many coders are unwilling to yield enough control to make that possible.
> That sounds as if it might be true in your case.  No problem:  You have
> the right to create proprietary software of whatever sort you wish.  But
> then, it just will not be open source, and people who prefer open source
> on account of its long-term benefits may prefer open source alternatives
> to your creations.
>


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Thomas Schneider (www.thsitc.com)