On 2022-09-14 17:06, Thiemo Kellner wrote:
> Am 14.09.22 um 18:39 schrieb Maude Summerside:
>> This is where intellectual shortcut starts...
>> Free/OSS doesn't mean GPL.
>> There's plenty of Free/OSS software that the copyright owner retains
>> right to commercial licensing. Just look at libraries, some of them will
>> be in such a licensing term that if you use the free version, you have
>> to share your code if you distribute it but they offer a commercial
>> license that allow you to link and distribute without source code. If
>> you only stick to Debian, no such thing because they aren't in the
>> licensing term accepted for distribution.
>>
>> But let say QT, you have a free version, force you to distribute freely
>> if linked against or you go with the commercial license.
>>
>> Why would the owner of the copyright regarding Chromium (that can write
>> their own terms) couldn't reserve himself a right to make a closed
>> source version (like Google Chrome, owned by the owner of Chromium
>> license).
>>
>> Something taking a break and make some research just shows off that we
>> don't only know how to type code, but we have a bit more knowledge than
>> that, regarding mostly real life example of what's also part of the
>> ecosystem.
> Thanks for trying to point out. I am afraid, it is beyond me as is dual
> licensing in general.
>
We all have our forces and weakness, so we are all the same.
I'm probably not as fast as you can be for writing JavaScript code,
HTML, or whatever you do. But my force is mostly at project management,
legal and business side of IT solutions.
I've driven mostly medical projects so I'm pretty used to the *thingy*
related to licensing.
The error I see the most often is generalizing a situation, in this case
thinking that GPL means Free/OSS. And even there free ain't OSS.
One of the reason behind the birth of MariaDB was such a dual licensing
change to MySQL when eveil-Oracle purchased the right to the software.
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Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside
-Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
