Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Peter S Galbraith > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > >acording to one of their lawyers... their intents match the GNU GPL.... > > > > the Cyrus licence seeks to restrict commercial use to let them make more > > > money. The intents aren't really that similar. > > > They don't want to limit commercial _use_, they want to limit > > commercially sold derived products > > And by wanting to limit commercially sold derived products, they fail > DFSG #1. Freedom of software also means the freedom to sell.
But not sell closed-close. You missed my point. > > So GPL for everybody, and those that want to make derived > > closed-sourced products can seek another licensing agreement. > > Their exceptions are not limited to closed-source deriviates. But it could be. Permitting the sale of GPLed derived products won't take away their revenue stream from those who want to sell a closed-source derived product. As I said... GPL it for everyone, and those that want to use it for a closed-sourced commercial application will pay for a different license agreement. Peter
