No, that's exactly what it says you can't do! You have to go 100% Open Source after 2-4 years, you have to monetize before then. On the other hand, you can start again with a new major version of your product, but the old version will have to have been fully opened up.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:43 PM, cogmission (David Ray) < [email protected]> wrote: > Assuming the business in question is fully able to monetize their initial > offering within 4 years, they could then (after being bombed :-P) opt for a > full commercial license with full fees. I like it! It offers a way to > charge a minimal affordable fee initially while the business model awaits > confirmation - while still offering the original rights owner the ability > to capitalize later when affordable by the customer. > > Interesting... > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Fergal Byrne <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Hi guys, >> >> After a wonderful weekend at the hackathon, Richard Crowder and I were >> brainstorming as we walked around Manhattan on Monday. We came up with a >> new (or new twist on an) idea for dual Open Source/Commercial projects. We >> call it the Time-bombed Open License [1]. >> >> The idea is that you release your software under something strongly >> copylefted like the GPL for non-commercial use. For commercial users (who >> often can't use GPL software inside their own codebase or business), you >> charge a fee to absolve the customer from all the GPL obligations, but with >> a catch. >> >> Your ability to operate the commercial license is time-bombed for 2-4 >> years, after which time it becomes fully GPL (or whichever your OSS license >> is). This is transitive, so your customers must also start a time-bomb of >> the same length. >> >> We'd welcome feedback on this idea from you guys, and wonder would this >> be of interest for Numenta's commercial license for NuPIC? It might also be >> worth thinking about for nupic-community projects (this would involve >> Numenta granting commercialisation rights to these projects). >> >> Regards, >> >> Fergal Byrne >> >> >> [1] http://occupystartups.me >> -- >> >> Fergal Byrne, Brenter IT >> >> http://inbits.com - Better Living through Thoughtful Technology >> http://ie.linkedin.com/in/fergbyrne/ - https://github.com/fergalbyrne >> >> Founder of Clortex: HTM in Clojure - >> https://github.com/nupic-community/clortex >> >> Author, Real Machine Intelligence with Clortex and NuPIC >> Read for free or buy the book at https://leanpub.com/realsmartmachines >> >> e:[email protected] t:+353 83 4214179 >> Join the quest for Machine Intelligence at http://numenta.org >> Formerly of Adnet [email protected] http://www.adnet.ie >> > > > > -- > *With kind regards,* > > David Ray > Java Solutions Architect > > *Cortical.io <http://cortical.io/>* > Sponsor of: HTM.java <https://github.com/numenta/htm.java> > > [email protected] > http://cortical.io > -- Fergal Byrne, Brenter IT http://inbits.com - Better Living through Thoughtful Technology http://ie.linkedin.com/in/fergbyrne/ - https://github.com/fergalbyrne Founder of Clortex: HTM in Clojure - https://github.com/nupic-community/clortex Author, Real Machine Intelligence with Clortex and NuPIC Read for free or buy the book at https://leanpub.com/realsmartmachines e:[email protected] t:+353 83 4214179 Join the quest for Machine Intelligence at http://numenta.org Formerly of Adnet [email protected] http://www.adnet.ie
