From: Mahesh T. Pai
Date: February 26 2004 5:47pm
Subject: Re: License Name?
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Stéphane Croisier said on Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 06:10:52PM +0100,:
 > And BTW #3 does not solve the issue I raise of making an "internal" 
 > distribution within my organisation of a proprietary software on top of 
 > MySQL (viral effect or not?).

Urrp!! I  thought we were discussing GPL/free license.

 > cases). IBM can then freely redistribute it as part of their own 
   	       ^^^

`can' is theory.

 > distributions. No more sales for you. Period (and bankrupcy for you if you 
 > have no other revenue streams). So you have better to really well calculate 

And GPL encourages a different revenue model; and that is not based on
sale of copies / licenses.

 > If it was so easy to get license based revenue streams with an OSI license, 
 > I am sure a lot of software vendors would already make it. Do you know a 
 > lot of them? ;-)

See above. 
 
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