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On the dual-license modelOn the dual-license modelPosted Feb 16, 2006 5:08 UTC (Thu) by jbellis (guest, #14804)Parent article: On the dual-license model
As I commented over on Josh Berkus's blog when he took the same position:
The problems you point out are really problems of corporate-owned source, not a dual-license model. Even if the InnoDB product had been pure BSD-licensed like PostgreSQL, they or the new owners, as the copyright holders, would still be free to take the next version to a different, proprietary model.
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On the dual-license model Posted Feb 16, 2006 8:53 UTC (Thu) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link] Sure, but existing users would be free to integrate the BSD-licensed model into their own proprietary or whatever licensed works, and even take the BSD version forward under comunity development. With GPL licensed code, that can happen as well, but you lose the possibility of relicensing.
Not everyone sees that as a bad thing, but there is a lot of code out (Apache, BSD, Postgresql, Tcl, etc...) there that has a very liberal license for the express purpose of seeing it as widely used as possible, and there is an argument to be made for this position for some kinds of code.
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