Is this discussion still related to clojure in any way ? (If at all) Le lundi 8 juin 2015, Warren <warren.stra...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> > If you are concerned about the free-rider problem, why not dual license > under AGPL? > > It's seems sufficiently "viral" that most commercial entities will elect > to take a commercial license, but it allows the source to be leveraged by > other open source projects. > > The only downside is that AGPL does not seem to promote a lot of > contribution - but I gather that is not your main concern. > > > > > On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 4:17:43 AM UTC-6, Fergal Byrne wrote: >> >> >> An old-school C++ dev and I have started an initiative to combine the >> best of Open Source with a limited commercial license. It's not a new idea >> - MySQL creator Monty Widenius thought of something less viral in 2013 [1]. >> >> The Time-Bombed Open License [2] is the commercial side of a >> dual-licensed project, best paired with something strongly viral like GPL. >> Essentially, the project owner has 2 (up to 4) years to commercialise their >> product and then must go fully Open Source. The license is viral, so any >> commercial licensees must also use the TBOL and eventually open up their >> derived products. >> >> One major idea is to foster a culture of disruption of exploitative >> industries. If you can develop software to disrupt in your local market, >> your innovation can be used similarly by others elsewhere, and each new >> startup can improve on your work while earning their keep. Eventually, all >> derived products become Open Source and are free to all. >> >> We'd appreciate any comments, feedback and assistance from the wonderful >> Clojure community - we're up on twitter at @OccupyStartups. >> >> Regards, >> >> Fergal Byrne >> >> p.s. I wonder if this might be a solution to the clamour for Datomic to >> be Open Sourced (cough)? >> >> [1] >> http://monty-says.blogspot.ie/2013/06/business-source-software-license-with.html >> [2] http://occupystartups.me >> >> -- >> >> Fergal Byrne, Brenter IT >> >> http://inbits.com - Better Living through Thoughtful Technology >> http://ie.linkedin.com/in/fergbyrne/ - https://github.com/fergalbyrne >> >> Founder of Clortex: HTM in Clojure - >> https://github.com/nupic-community/clortex >> >> Author, Real Machine Intelligence with Clortex and NuPIC >> Read for free or buy the book at https://leanpub.com/realsmartmachines >> >> e:fergalby...@gmail.com t:+353 83 4214179 >> Join the quest for Machine Intelligence at http://numenta.org >> Formerly of Adnet edi...@adnet.ie http://www.adnet.ie >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure@googlegroups.com');> > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Laurent Petit -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
