[License-discuss] some FLOSS license + commercial: Your thoughts?

2013-09-24 Thread Alec Taylor
I am building a set of generalised libraries and frameworks. Would like to open-source it all; however in the cases where a client wants their custom stuff under a non open-source license; I should have provisions for such a case. So what are my best options? - Currently looking at BSD/MIT and

Re: [License-discuss] we need a new license for earning money

2013-09-24 Thread Pirmin Braun
Am Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:07:01 +0100 schrieb Cinly Ooi c...@theiet.org : Unfortunately, people standing here are not going to modify the Open Source Definition so that you can charge a subset of users. Freedom to redistribute is the cornerstone of the Open Source. We cannot change it, even that

Re: [License-discuss] some FLOSS license + commercial: Your thoughts?

2013-09-24 Thread Cinly Ooi
Dear Alec Any license has to satisfy two persons' need, your client and you. Presuming you are still building and you are able to isolate the custom stuff, say into aplugin, the strongest protection for Open Source in this scenario will be GPL with exceptions made for the plugins that merely

Re: [License-discuss] some FLOSS license + commercial: Your thoughts?

2013-09-24 Thread John Cowan
Alec Taylor scripsit: I am building a set of generalised libraries and frameworks. Would like to open-source it all; however in the cases where a client wants their custom stuff under a non open-source license; I should have provisions for such a case. As long as it's all written by you or

Re: [License-discuss] we need a new license for earning money

2013-09-24 Thread Chris Travers
A few thoughts, assuming you are open to open source perspectives by asking here ;-) On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Pirmin Braun p...@intars.de wrote: currently our IntarS ERP Software is released under GPL. But we want to be able obtain license fees from bigger commercial users. That's

Re: [License-discuss] we need a new license for earning money

2013-09-24 Thread Chris Travers
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Pirmin Braun p...@intars.de wrote: Am Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:22:41 -0400 schrieb John Cowan co...@mercury.ccil.org : Pirmin Braun scripsit: So I'd like to share our thoughts: Maybe it is possible to add such an extension to the OSI Open Source

Re: [License-discuss] we need a new license for earning money

2013-09-24 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Pirmin Braun p...@intars.de wrote: Am Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:07:01 +0100 schrieb Cinly Ooi c...@theiet.org : If it was only my situation, I wouldn't have asked. But I'm also an Open Source Evangelist and FSFE member and have detected this common pattern with