We really shouldn't be giving advice on which licenses to use for which hybrid model. I'd suggest picking up a copy of Van Lindbergs book.
Chris On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Varun Mehta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc. Google's Open Source and Developer programs can be found at http://code.google.com Personal Site and Weblog: http://dibona.com -- 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.
