Hi ! First of all let me state here on how I'm pleased with svn - I know many developers out there prefer git, but after digging bit deeper into git internals our team decided to gave up on git. Let them try to sort out their mess first, and may be after this I can move to it. Also git's GPL licence is another bottleneck for further improvement of git.
For long time I was disturbed with GPL licensing and open source code which is expensive to make, and no profit earned from it, and also I'm disturbed by propitiatory source code base, such as Microsoft, which is basically only eating all knowledge without returning anything back for other developers to use. Then eventually I've came up with licensing which would support both development approaches - open source code and closed platform base - and I've came up with license which I'm attaching below. However - I don't have any source code repository (svn / git / mercurial) which would work under my license - basically my idea is such that v1.0 is open source code, while v2.0 costs something, but after "1.0 to 2.0" investment is returned - v2.0 also starts to be public. I was thinking about helping you to change svn source code to work with my license, but this would basically mean to re-licence svn under my license - also svn would become closed source code, till investments pays off. I would like to know your opinion on re-licensing svn - can I do it ? And may be also someone would volunteer to help me to make changes to happen. Attaching my idea of "Open platform license": (Gives you initial idea, text can still be tuned further): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open platform license --------------------- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining current version of binary distribution copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software. Source code distribution or it's derivate works (including binary distribution of new versions) can be sold for profit, however maximum profit earned from each change should be at maximum 3 times of money invested into making change to happen. After receiving necessary profit author(s) must publish source code distribution along with changes for public. Source code and binary distributions must remain standalone and testable in their own environment - and if testability is broken - source code or binary distribution must be extended to derivate work's source code or distribution. This license will be applicable to any derivate works raised from original distribution. The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. in no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software. -- Have a nice day! Tarmo.
