Just to show I'm not taking sides :)

eZpublisher just went to a dual licensing system too.  For more info check
out:

http://developer.ez.no/home/licence/

Regards

T.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Sellar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 6:44 PM
Subject: RE: GPL or not?


>
> > proVSD will be based on freeVSD... in what way ? Will proVSD use
> > the same code,
> > but simply extend it ? If that's the case, proVSD has to be
> > released as GPL as
> > well.
> >
>
> Actually this is incorrect. For an example of how dual-licensing of
software
> can lead to better software for everyone follow this:
> http://www.winterspeak.com/columns/102901.html
>
> > People who discovered freeVSD through some kind of link were
> > always able to
> > download it and try it. But when you start pulling everything
> > away from people
> > who 'may be interested', they will immediately back off. They
> > want to try the
> > software before they spend money, even if it's very cheap. And I
> > don't think you
> > can blame them, can you ?
>
> People are still free to try the software. Everything save for the latest
> release is available in easily installable packages. Only the latest
> release, for the time being, requires the additional overhead of fetching
> and building.
>
> >
> > Personally, I'm very interested in deploying freeVSD on a large
> > scale, but it
> > needs a lot more work before I can get that done. I'm willing to
> > implement these
> > features :
> > - Load balancing for Apache, Qmail and MySQL (all 3 tested so far
> > and working
> > fine outside freeVSD)
> > - Failover system guaranteeing 100% uptime for Apache, Qmail and
> > MySQL with
> > shared disk array (MySQL is tough on shared disk array though,
> > still working on
> > that)
> > - Use of a distributed file system with replication, again adding to the
> > redundancy of the solution
> > These are the reasons why I was asking for a clear layout of how
> > freeVSD was
> > designed last week. I had the intention to begin development as
> > soon as possible.
> > But seeing how things are evolving now, I might as well throw all
> > those ideas
> > away and start building a new virtual server system, specifically
> > designed for
> > 100% availability.
> >
>
> As I have previously said, freeVSD is not going away. If you were
intending
> to contribute code you would have to be using CVS in any event, and you
> still can.
>
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