Thanks for the correction & link, Greg, will check that out.  Is this
different than GitHub's approach?  Is it better or worse?

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote:

> I hate to say it, but this is exactly why we should be preferring copyleft
> licenses. GitLab began as completely FOSS, but only later on split into the
> CE and EE, which they were able to do because they used MIT.
>
>
> *-- *
> *Tyler Romeo*
> Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
> Major in Computer Science
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Brian for your thoughts.
> >
> > Only commenting on one small part:
> >
> > <quote name="Brian Gerstle" date="2015-10-07" time="11:10:03 -0400">
> > > *Pros*
> > >
> > >    - FLOSS
> >
> > ...ish. Not really. "Open Core".
> >
> > See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab#History
> >
> > A view on why Open Core isn't healthy for FLOSS communities:
> > http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/10/16/open-core-shareware.html
> >
> >
> > Greg
> >
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