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04-26-2010, 03:06 PM | #2 |
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I don't see the draft or poop or antifreeze mentioned anywhere FatE.
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04-26-2010, 03:14 PM | #3 |
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Selling support services like training, installation, management, hosting, administration, etc.
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04-26-2010, 03:16 PM | #4 |
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04-26-2010, 03:37 PM | #5 |
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Can you sell proprietary software by improving the open source software or making the software industry specific?
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04-26-2010, 05:31 PM | #6 |
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There are different types of licenses out there, so it all differs license to license.
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04-26-2010, 05:59 PM | #7 | |
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good article on those two most popular licenses... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articl...BSD-ADVANTAGES |
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04-26-2010, 05:59 PM | #8 | |
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Don't know if that's viable with what you have in mind, but it's pretty common anymore. |
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04-26-2010, 06:01 PM | #9 | |
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the Eclipse Public License v1.0 (EPL), which is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html , and the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPL), which is available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html. For licensees that wish to distribute XXXXX, modify the source code, and/or build extensions, the EPL can be used to maintain copyleft of the original code base while encouraging innovation with commercial and other open source offerings incorporating XXXXX. At the same time, for licensees that are concerned with incompatibility between the EPL and GPL, we are providing the LGPL as an option to license XXXXX |
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04-26-2010, 06:38 PM | #10 |
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Great, now that you know what licenses are involved you can read them and figure it out
I don't know shit about EPL, and it's been years since I looked into the LGPL, but as I recall it was reactionary license created out of fear of the viral possibilities of GPL. Odds are you aren't going to be able to straight up sell modifications to that code base. GPL was created to force people to give back their enhancements to the community.
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