On Sun, Jun 06, 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="David Guest"> > > > Thanks Mary. I was just wondering if people like Ken might get an income > > from the closed license stream in much the same way as Sun gets from Star > > Office. > > > > Not yet sounds like the answer and it may never be practicable. > > Whoa there, heaps of people do. Ask Erik! :-)
So, I think the original question (in this subthread) was something like this: Is there anyone contributing to a FOSS project for which they do NOT hold all the copyright who is making any money out of the following system: sell their copyright to someone else in return for royalties on any closed source licence sales? (Eg. $1 for every commerical licence sale.) Here's David Guest's original phrasing: > Alternatively are their commercial contracts for assigning copyright > under dual licensing? (e.g. I get one dollar for every seat where this > application is used under a commercial license.) Or is this too messy > to handle in practice? I'm only pointing this out because I'd be interested in the answer, and Erik's last post suggests that he isn't actually an example: he's making money precisely because he IS sole copyright holder and thus can sell licences, not in exchange for his copyright. (Of course I may be misjudging based on that single post.) It seems like copyright assigners do so without financial reward in the FOSS world. I'm aware, and I'm sure David is, that this is possible in principle, but all the actual examples cited in this thread to date have been sole copyright holders earning income from granting extra licences, not people who've signed their copyright away in exchange for royalties from such sales. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
