Re: [xmlvm-users] Licence issues

[Gergely K. <ger...@ma...>]

Hi,

2009/10/7 Arno Puder <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.
>
> With one important difference: they only have the source under the GPL with
linking exception. And from the earlier discussion it seems that the linking
exception is not transferrable to others. (Transferrability would
effectively defeat its purpose.)

At the same time the XMLVM team is able to relicense the whole package under
a commercial license.

I am not saying that this is a problem, it is simply a property of a
GPL/commercial project.

Best Regards,
Gergely