Re: [Ubuntu-be] [ot] welke licentie? / which license ?
Op zondag 22-06-2008 om 14:01 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Y P: > / A friend of mine is busy with some projects; herefore he'd like to > publish something that we may use in the opensource world, but he'd > like to make derivate or alternate products from it and get some > financial fee with it: > which license is the good one, bsd? others? If he has all the copyright on his application and all the libraries he uses, then he can use whatever license he wants (that's what TrollTech does with Qt, for example). A BSD or similar license makes it possible to sell derivative software, even if the open source part contains some works copyright by other people (but remember that the licenses of all linked libraries are important too). Another possibility, in case the software lends itself to it, is making an open source framework that implements a plugin system and the basic plugins to get something useful, and sell advanced plugins to those who need it. E.g. there exist commercial extensions/plugins to the Eclipse IDE/framework and there are commercial codecs for GStreamer. (Depending on the license used for the framework itself, you might need to include some wording that explicitly allows closed source plugins though.) More exact suggestions might be possible if we know more or less what sort of application this is though... -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
Re: [Ubuntu-be] [ot] welke licentie? / which license ?
Hello Op zondag 22-06-2008 om 14:01 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Y P: > A friend of mine is busy with some projects; herefore he'd like to publish > something that we may use in the opensource world, but he'd like to make > derivate or alternate products from it and get some financial fee with it: > which license is the good one, bsd? others? > where to find a good juridic advisor in Belgium? Your friend can license his work under any license even the GPL (which is the best license if it is an standalone application imho) and still keep the right to relicense his work later under other terms (such as closed source software) _as long as he has the full rights over the hole program_. Secondly he should be carefull with de dependency's he uses, he can't use GPL licensed libs if he want to keep a closed version of his software and ask that all external contributors give him the right over their contributions. I think some big FS-company's use this approach (Qt, Open Office, mysql, ...) If he uses GPL and accept external contribution he can't relicense his work, but he can still sell his opensource software. The mayor problem is that all modification should be made public, which customers maybe won't always want to have... François -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
Re: [Ubuntu-be] [ot] welke licentie? / which license ?
Y P wrote: > Hallo/Hello, > > een vriend is met een project bezig waarvoor hij enerzijds wel iets wil > lossen voor de opensource wereld, anderzijds er graag een derivaat of andere > product mee wil vervaardigen die meer financieel iets moet opbrengen: > welke licentie, bsd? of anderen / waar in België om juridisch advies vragen > ? > of kunnen jullie me helpen? > Juridisch advies kan ik je niet direct geven, maar bij het kiezen kan deze website misschien wel helpen: http://java.net/choose_license.csp#choosing > / A friend of mine is busy with some projects; herefore he'd like to publish > something that we may use in the opensource world, but he'd like to make > derivate or alternate products from it and get some financial fee with it: > which license is the good one, bsd? others? > where to find a good juridic advisor in Belgium? I can't help you with a juridic advisor, but this website may help you choose a license: http://java.net/choose_license.csp#choosing -Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
Re: [Ubuntu-be] [ot] welke licentie? / which license ?
2008/6/22 Y P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > / A friend of mine is busy with some projects; herefore he'd like to publish > something that we may use in the opensource world, but he'd like to make > derivate or alternate products from it and get some financial fee with it: > which license is the good one, bsd? others? > where to find a good juridic advisor in Belgium? Affero GPL V3 might be a good license, especially for network use. See http://www.fsf.org/agplv3-pr and http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html Mark -- Mark Van den Borre Noormannenstraat 113 3000 Leuven, België +32 486 961726 -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
[Ubuntu-be] [ot] welke licentie? / which license ?
Hallo/Hello, een vriend is met een project bezig waarvoor hij enerzijds wel iets wil lossen voor de opensource wereld, anderzijds er graag een derivaat of andere product mee wil vervaardigen die meer financieel iets moet opbrengen: welke licentie, bsd? of anderen / waar in België om juridisch advies vragen ? of kunnen jullie me helpen? / A friend of mine is busy with some projects; herefore he'd like to publish something that we may use in the opensource world, but he'd like to make derivate or alternate products from it and get some financial fee with it: which license is the good one, bsd? others? where to find a good juridic advisor in Belgium? Dank u Thanks, Y P -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
