Re: [xmlvm-users] Licence issues

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

well, Bjoern, as a quick note to your comment: you can never prevent 
someone making money with your contribution to an Open Source project. 
This is nothing unique to a dual licensing strategy. Redhat makes a lot 
of money using other's peoples work. Of course they provide a service on 
top of the packaging. That would be the same for us. I don't think 
anyone would just give money to the core team without asking for 
something in return (and by that I mean more than the linking 
exception). By giving you a linking exception for your contribution, you 
would be given the same chance of using XMLVM for your commercial ventures.

Arno


Björn Caroll wrote:
> Time for me to enter the debate. For me it has been clear from the start
> what the licensing was and what that meant to me.
> I saw it as a good thing that everybody that what to get the benefit of
> other peoples work had to contribute them self. That is what open source
> is about in my opinion.
> I have been working on a JavaME compatibility library for the iPhone for
> a couple of moths and intended to contribute it to XMLVM when I had
> cleaned it up.
> If other people contribute code I get the benefit from it and we can all
> make money on selling the iPhone app. I am ok with that some contribute
> a little and others a lot. There is no absolute justice. However if
> there is a monetary contribution all of it goes to the core team and
> nothing to the others (me).
> This is nothing unique for XMLVM, others have dual licensing but I have
> always wondered why anyone would contribute to such a project!.
> 
>>From being very positive I am now reconsidering my contribution to XMLVM.
> 
> /Björn
> 
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