Hi Frank, isn't this point
On Friday 17 August 2012 00:02:53 Frank Karlitschek wrote: > - ownCloud, Inc. is a software company built around the ownCloud Open > Source project and is fully committed to Open Source principles. in conflict with these points? > - All members of the ownCloud community understand that ownCloud Inc. can > sell proprietary licenses for ownCloud to its customers. As in many Open > Source companies, parts of the proceeds flow back into the ownCloud > community, e.g. through sponsorships or employing ownCloud community > developers. > - ownCloud, Inc. may choose to develop proprietary enterprise extensions to > ownCloud. Those extensions are optional, and will not be required to run > standard ownCloud. How can ownCloud, Inc. be _fully_ committed to Free Software principles while developing proprietary extensions? Does this mean that ownCloud is going the neo-proprietary/open-core route now? I also don't see how you can sell proprietary licenses for code contributed by the community without copyright assignment. Regards, Torsten -- Torsten Grote, Kolab Evangelist Kolab Systems AG, Zürich, Switzerland e: [email protected] t: +41 43 501 66 91 w: http://kolabsys.com pgp: 274D 4F97 Torsten Grote
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