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. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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