On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:58, Sujai "Ron" Nath wrote:
> Horst,
> 
> I think this would serve as a good model for
> government sponsored software projects worldwide.
> 
> My comments:
> 1. Perhaps a BSD-style license will appease both the
> commmercial for-profit folks and the open-source
> community rather than dual licensing (though that
> certainly works too as evidenced by MySQL).

Horst suggests a "GPL-compatible" license, which includes BSD-style
licenses (or at least the "modified BSD" license - see
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses).

I don't think any of these licenses specifically exclude dual-licensing
(i.e. provision of code by the copyright holder under an alternative
"commercial development" license, usually for a fee).

> 2. I think portability should go beyond the software
> to include data storage; it should be an open standard
> such as XML or even plain ASCII.

At least, the facility to export data in a non-proprietary
standards-compliant format should be provided wherever possible.
 
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