> for MySQL. Oops. MariaDB. Monty.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 1:57 PM Bruce Perens <br...@perens.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 1:35 PM Gil Yehuda via License-discuss < > license-discuss@lists.opensource.org> wrote: > >> >> 2. The other is a commercial motivation to construct license terms that >> are permissive enough to get attention and adoption by curious (employed) >> developers, but "threatening" enough to convert their companies into >> licensors of the commercial terms. >> > > This is a motivation of dual licensing companies, but not a motivation of > FSF at all. And from the company perspective, license FUD has sometimes > been a motivator, but in most cases they have a reason to pay other than > compulsion. > > >> They are in the business of selling protection from the license threats >> they create. >> > > That sounds a lot more draconian than it should. Many of them are happy to > allow you to use their software under terms like the GPL without charge, > and offer additional rights for a price. I don't think even Richard > Stallman objects to people offering additional rights for money. > > >> you have to include the second group who clearly believe in creating >> proprietary software (their "enterprise editions"), but who use the tools >> created by those who do not, in order to convert interest into revenue from >> employees who don't quite understand the parameters of these licenses. >> > > If the employees don't understand, that is an internal problem of the > company. In my own trainings I do go over what you do for the company and > why, and I enable employees to understand the licenses (but not to make > decisions without counsel) because they are the first line of defense > against intellectual property problems within the company. In general where > I have done this training, issues are brought to us by engineers rather > than first popping up in a Black Duck or Palamida scan. > > I do understand the motivations of the companies who are looking at > license innovations, and I help them off of OSI lists. I can't talk about a > lot of that, but you will notice that I worked on the Business Source > license for MySQL. > > Unfortunately, a lot of what the companies want to do can't be achieved as > Open Source, and it is best that all sides understand that and go on. > > Thanks > > Bruce >
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