On 6/5/06, Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is why I highly encourage Traversal to follow a simple dual-licensing strategy (GPL and proprietary) and to NOT license anything under the LGPL. Dual-licensing GPL/proprietary maximizes the users' freedom and Traversal's profit at the same time, by ensuring that another company can't "run off" with the design, improve it, and not give back the improvements.
I agree, and I have been transitioning in that direction. Perhaps we should scour the wiki and make sure this is consistent. First of all, Traversal makes HARDWARE. Although we may participate in FOSS software development in the future, what we sell is hardware. All Traversal hardware will be licensed under GPL and also available under a commercial license for a fee. As for software, I'm not going to control what other people do, but I am going to recommend that drivers and such be licensed under MIT and BSD licenses. That is, any driver code I write for Traversal hardware will be under one of those licenses. If it needs to be converted to GPL for the purposes of inclusion in like the Linux kernel, I have no problem with that. In the event that we work on some end-user app, we'll decide what to do at that time. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
