On Sep 18, 2013, at 4:58, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote:
> [2] Companies often have terms in place permitting certain licences; > if yours is not one of them, it will not be considered, no matter how > good the product may be. This is a critical point. Even getting our corporate lawyers to OK our use of the Perl interpreter (not even a custom one, mind you) required negotiating with them until they understood the license, since it wasn't on their short list of pre-digested licenses. Being able to point to the distributions bundled with Solaris and Oracle Enterprise was helpful in convincing them that this license was acceptable to the mainstream. Other, lesser-known licenses would have stood no chance. I always sort of liked the Alladin license - proprietary if you wanted the current release, while older releases got GPL'd. Submitted patches incorporated into the (proprietary) current release, so that they took a while to trickle down to the GPL'd version, providing incentive to pay for it. I do not know how successful that was in general, but I paid the price a couple of times (through a former employer) to get necessary new features. Overall, it seemed a fair way to fund things. --Robert _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
