The quick answer is that we do plan on providing a commercial license for situations where following the terms of the GNU AGPL isn't possible or practical for a number of reasons (security, privacy, other licensing/IP issues, etc.).
This dual licensing approach has been used by a number of companies/projects including MySQL and SugarCRM. Here are a couple of blog posts that discuss this issue in the context of open-source startups (which Insoshi is): http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2008/01/dual-license-model-future-of-open.html http://lawandlifesiliconvalley.blogspot.com/search?q=dual However, I do want to be clear that we *are not* planning on any kind of "tiered" offering as some dual-licensed projects have done. We want the open source community and commerical versions to be as close to identical as possible except for the license. One of our goals with Insoshi is to ensure that the open source platform remains open in the sense that updates and improvements are always made available to the community. And we believe that the GNU AGPL offers the best way of guaranteeing that. Definitely feel free to email me directly with any specific concerns about licensing. Long On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:32 PM, megatoast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sorry but I think I need some clarification / confirmation > regarding the Licensing of Insoshi. This was a quote from a comment > from TechCrunch. > > "It's worth mentioning that the license is Affero GPL, which means you > have to provide the source to your site if anyone requests it. This is > probably a deal-breaker for most companies looking to build on this > platform." > > is this true regarding the AGPL license of Insoshi? That means all the > code I wrote on top of Insoshi must be made free to whoever that > requests it? What about code I wrote before and I intergrated them > into an Insoshi installation. How big of a scope does AGPL cover? > > thanks, > -steven > > > -- Long Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Insoshi developer site: http://dogfood.insoshi.com/ Insoshi documentation: http://docs.insoshi.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Insoshi" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/insoshi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
