This may help or maybe not, I am not very savvy on open source licensing I just saw a re-post of one person I follow in some circles,
Here is the original http://icorsaro.net/blog/2012/09/27/23-genuineopensource.html Eduardo On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Alan Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > My thinking regarding the license is to follow the strategy which Neo4j > and MongoDb follow - which is similar to the MySQL agreement: > > Each has a GPL-variant license and a contributor agreement which involves > a copyright sharing arrangement. > > Neo4j offers GPL for the base product, and AGPL for the advanced > versions of their product. > MongoDb puts everything under the AGPL. > MySQL puts everything under the GPL -- and their situation was a > motivation in creating the AGPL > > Here's info on Neo4j contributor agreement: > http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/milestone/cla.html > Here's info on the MongoDb contributor agreement > http://www.10gen.com/contributor > Here's the MySQL contributor agreement > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html > > > As you know, today, we don't have even a complete "basic" version. I'm > leaning towards favoring the Neo4j approach of having a basic capability > which is available under the GPL, with "enterprise" versions falling under > the AGPL. Or I could just make it AGPL starting from today. > > > Comments? > > -- > Alan Robertson <[email protected]> <[email protected]> - @OSSAlanR > > "Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me claim > from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William Wilberforce > > > _______________________________________________ > Assimilation mailing list - Discovery-Driven Monitoring > [email protected] > http://lists.community.tummy.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/assimilation > http://assimmon.org/ > >
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