Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:25:22 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov@iki.fi> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ion3 license violation Message-ID: <475FA902.9010204@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <slrnflv807.m9k.tuomov@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi> References: <slrnflv329.e47.tuomov@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi> <20071212080253.GD40969@k7.mavetju> <slrnflv77o.k6f.tuomov@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi> <20071212083753.GA77619@harmless.hu> <slrnflv807.m9k.tuomov@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 First of all this is not a criticism of you but of the FreeBSD and FOSS community Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On 2007-12-12, Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu> wrote: >> I don't use Ion3, and I never intend to, but to be honest, this >> licence of yours really seems to be very unreasonable. It's just >> silly, nothing more. > > I could make it GPLv3 and nagware at the same time. Sistros would > still have modify and consequently rename it to distribute something > worth using. Taking the project closed source and/or in some other way denying open access to the code is not your only option to protect your legit rights as a developer. There is a middle ground that my company and several other MicroISV's have developed over the last few years with one of them doing over a million in sales using the model. The basic idea is find an appropriate mix of restrictions on tech free loaders and the legitimate right of users to not be completely locked into your internal development model. Specifically you are allowed to charge for copies of your work, even modified ones, as long you pass certain rewards onto to contributors for more info see the following blogs I wrote on the subject (and they contain links to the rest of the community): http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/FOSS.php http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/SIW_Background.php http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/RCS.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHX6kCzIOMjAek4JIRAogeAJoCC9vLTZ9Pl/nm/hK5/zT+LgeBMgCeKq2t OZrj7+BdPvO6+lQ8ridv+5I= =OCsN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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