Before that, we'll actively distribute alpha and beta code to
contributors (we're hoping to attract testers and developers) - we'll be
providing access to our server and certs to contributors, and
contributors will be free to further distribute all source and binary
code - it's just that we won't be broadly distributing from our own
repository until formal release.
I hope this clarifies things.
No, it doesn't, because there's still the matter of "pay $X more for the
source code during alpha and beta". However much you're throwing around
the words "distribute" and "source" and "contributor", there's a dollar
amount sitting between binary and source, and that's directly contrary
to this list's mission.
Good that you're releasing it under GPL after release, sure, but you
don't need to restrict it during alpha and beta. Just release it under
GPL. How difficult is that?
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Mark Holmquist
Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation
mtrac...@member.fsf.org
http://marktraceur.info
