Re: [xmlvm-users] Using xmlvm in a commercial product

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

Inderjeet,

both GPL and L-GPL require you to submit any 
modifications/enhancements/fixes you make to XMLVM back to us. Both 
licenses allow you to use XMLVM in a commercial product. However, the 
GPL also requires you to make your own application available under the 
GPL license if you link the XMLVM libraries to your application. Most 
likely this is not what you had in mind if you want to use XMLVM for a 
commercial product (this requirement basically limits your business 
model to services around your product).

We put a lot of efforts in making XMLVM. May I suggest an alternative: 
we are willing to grant you a commercial license for XMLVM that would 
allow you to use XMLVM in a commercial product. This commercial license 
would not require you to publish your own source code under an Open 
Source license. In return for the commercial license, you give us some 
funding to enhance XMLVM. This is the essence of dual-licensing 
(releasing source code under two different licenses: an Open Source as 
well as a commercial license). Considering all the work that already 
went into XMLVM, I think this is a fair trade. What do you think?

Arno


Inderjeet Singh wrote:
> Thank you for writing the xmlvm tool: it seems like an awesome way to
> write Java code that is usable in Android applications as well as
> iPhone ones.
> 
> I noted that you picked GPL as the license. Is your intention that
> xmlvm be used only for open-source projects? Would you consider making
> it available under LGPL so that we can contribute back modifications
> to xmlvm but at least be able to use it in commercial apps?
> 
> Thanks
> Inderjeet
> 
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