On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:31, alex_sv <[email protected]> wrote: > If so I have only one question: is it possible to have dual license > for Google-hosted project: open source license and commercial one? > I mean if I am an author of some opensourced application that is > hosted at Google code and licensed under GPL (General Public License), > can I offer it to my customers under different license terms, I mean > commercial license, like Nokia (formerly Trolltech) offers Qt?
Google Code does not offer explicit support for dual licensing. However, in your case, as far as Google Code is concerned, we see that you're offering software under a single license, the GNU GPL. Then, as the author, you are completely within your rights to offer the software under a different license to paying customers. As long as the whole project hosted on Google Code follows the terms of the license you configured for the project, I don't see a problem with having something like "If you'd like to use this software in a commercial setting where the GNU GPL is problematic, please contact me" in the description of your project. All we care about is that users can make full use of the software avalailable on Google Code, under the license advertised by the project. Private arrangements that you make with certain entities beyond that as the author are not our concern. Other Google Code team folks, does that sound right to you? - Dave > > This point is quite unclear from the Google Code's EULA. > > Thanks in advance, > Alexander > > On 5 окт, 13:07, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:56, alex_sv <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Do I understand right that this feature has been implemented? >> >> I'm afraid not. The services of code.google.com are still only for >> open source projects. If you have some open source components related >> to your business, you are more than welcome to host them on Google >> Code. However, we do not at this time provide closed source hosting. >> >> > If yes - could you please clarify how to start commercial project at >> > Google Code (of course I would pay for that). >> > There are many but few hosters that provides such a great, feature- >> > rich service. >> >> > If no - could you please clarify when it will be possible? >> >> As a policy, we do not preannounce features and releases. The best way >> to prioritize something with us is to star an issue in the issue >> tracker, since this lets us measure community interest in features and >> direct our efforts. >> >> In this case, the issue >> ishttp://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1829. Please don't >> be discouraged by the relatively long life of the bug: we follow our >> issues very closely, and you can be quite sure that if the issue is >> not closed, it is still on our radar. >> >> - Dave > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
