Brian Hulley wrote:
Jón Fairbairn wrote:
Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I can't entirely dismiss GNU/FSF/GPL...
Maybe you should thank the FSF for making you doubt:
I know of several good ideas that started out as attempts at
commercial projects but weren't taken up. [...snip]
Thanks Jón and Stefan for these points.
I'm coming round to the idea that possibly a combination of BSD (for
libs) and a metamorphosing licence for the program (from proprietary
up to a certain date then GPL thereafter) would solve...
Actually I've reconsidered that model and can't recommend it any more so
please ignore it or treat it with some caution. (Making the end product open
doesn't help (in terms of me making money) if most of the target user base
isn't at all interested in hacking, and the cyclic metamorphic model doesn't
admit the same advantages of collaboration that a purely open source model
would and might just degenerate into a heavily forked mess...)
Apologies for posting before I'd considered these implications - I'm out of
this thread now (everyone will be very pleased to hear!)
Regards, Brian.
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Yet still phantoms restless for eras long past,
congealed in the present in unthought forms,
strive mightily unseen to destroy us.
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