Abe Kornellis is not alone in desiring an open source license like this for precisely the dual license structure. As a vendor of proprietary software, I would like an open source license that prevents or atleast substantially "discourages" commercial users who wish to use it for closed source applications, but allows them to use it when developing open source applications.
This would allow us to give away our library in open source form. Thus, increasing the supply of open source materials, while still preserving our ability to derive our revenues from commercial customers (even if that revenue might drop). And, yes to answer an ealier question from John Cowan, we would like a license with legal teeth to compell that open source usage, since that teeth is the same teeth we would use to extract the commercial revenue which is our current livelihood (i.e. if they weren't willing to open source their program we would happily sell them the closed source licensed copy at a reasonable fee, just as we do today). We also realize that any license is not perfect as truly commited people will find ways to cheat and steal. We just want to help those that are honest understand which doors are locked and which are not. Hope this helps, -Chris ***************************************************************************** Chris Clark Internet : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Compiler Resources, Inc. Web Site : http://world.std.com/~compres 3 Proctor Street voice : (508) 435-5016 Hopkinton, MA 01748 USA fax : (508) 435-4847 (24 hours) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3