Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ideally, I would like to craft a dual license that says, in legalese, > "if you don't pay, reciprocate; if you pay, you don't have to > reciprocate". QED.
This clearly isn't the right mailing list to seek help with that. More about that below. > However like Marius I find the GPL and other open source licenses > inadequate to express this, since most if not all allow certain > situations to avoid reciprocation e.g. internal use, web services. I > should think GPL and friends were never designed to be the "bad cop" > part of a "good cop, bad cop" dual-licensing scheme to get proprietary > users to pay. Surprisingly enough, many things turn out to have uses for which they were never designed. Of a certainty, you're correct that Prof. Moglen and Richard Stallman most definitely never designed the GNU GPL to be a component of a proprietary-software business model. Notwithstanding that fact, it's definitely feasible to do so in some circumstances -- as I believe I mentioned earlier. Now, people here are generally (if somewhat vaguely) sympathetic to your desire to find a business model that works for you, because we're generally pleasant and agreeable people. But sooner or later we'll tend to come back to an inconvenient fact -- that this ultimately is just not the "Improve Glen Low's Business" mailing list. However,, if you want to start such a list, I can recommend some good open-source software to run it on. ;-> -- Cheers, Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3