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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