Jason, I'm not that good with legal stuff, could you suggest which licenses support this model ?
>From the top of my head, I think GPL is out. Regards Varun Mehta On Mar 19, 11:59 am, Jason Robbins <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep, that is true. Open source licenses cannot discriminate against > different fields of use. If it is open for anyone, it should be open > for everyone. > > However, one strategy that is often used by companies involved in open > source is to have two products in a product family. One is open > source for everyone. The other is based on the OSS one, but there is > something a little better about it that makes it worth paying for. > Some OSS licenses allow that and others don't work well for that. > > Thanks, > jason! > > > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Karl Fogel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Varun Mehta <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I want to host a project which has a community version, open to > >> develop and personal use, but they have to pay for commercial use. Can > >> I host such a project ? > > > I don't speak for Google, but I can tell you what their answer will be: > > > Your project is not open source, so it's not eligible for hosting on > > Google Code. An open source license does not discriminate against > > specific fields of use, including commercial use. > > > Best, > > -Karl > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Project Hosting on 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on 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.
