On Wednesday 18 May 2005 02:00, Timothy Miller wrote: > On 5/17/05, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Timothy wrote: > > > > I'm hoping that Timothy and his partners and investors will be willing > > to make the RTL available *before* it is GPL'd to hardware hackers that > > have a serious interest in contributing to the project, under a non-GPL > > license that doesn't allow public distribution. If there is a serious > > commitment to releasing under the GPL by a certain date (especially if > > there is escrow), that should provide sufficient access for people to > > start contributing. > > With an NDA, this should be fine. Of course, there's a risk of it > getting leaked if too many people get it, so even with the NDA, it > shouldn't be free; this way, only serious people get it, and I believe > there are some legal reasons why a contract is more binding when money > is exchanged (something about 'consideration'), but IANAL. > > In any event, what should it cost? And it would be easier to roll the > 'hobbyist' and 'commercial' license into one, where the up-front fee > isn't too bad in either case, and there's also a royalty for each chip > you produce. > > Suggestions?
Keep them separate. Have a commercial licence at a commercial rate (I think $25k was mentioned, I have no idea what would be reasonable), and have a hobbyist licence that is much cheaper, but requires the licencee to contribute the source to his/her derived works back to the project if they are distributed (like the Mozilla Public License), that is if you allow distribution in binary form of derived works at all. This way, hobbyists can hack privately, and contribute to the project, but if you want to use the IP in your own proprietary project you'll need to get a developer's licence. Lourens
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