On Thu, 6 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alex Rousskov scripsit: > > > Whether a serious competitor will arise using your LGPLed sources is > > most likely unrelated to the licensing issue. Since you are going to > > release the sources of your software (and allow modification?), > > "Release" in the sense that they will provide those sources to paying > (subscribing) customers only
Indeed. I did not get that additional restriction from the original post. The subscribers-only restriction makes a rival "more open source" project more likely to succeed, of course. > An Apache-style effort, a consortium of the customers, would > probably be quite successful. This is all assuming that this isn't > just beating the air, that there actually is a commercial demand for > the VM. A commercial demand that is not satisfied by the "less open source" branch of the project. I agree. Alex. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3