Dual-license simply codifying an accepted OSS vending model? [LWN.net]

Dual-license simply codifying an accepted OSS vending model?

Posted Dec 18, 2002 10:32 UTC (Wed) by odaf (guest, #5069)
In reply to: Dual-license simply codifying an accepted OSS vending model? by pointwood
Parent article: Mandrake flirts with non-open source (News.com)

I don't understand why they will not sell support for the GPL'ed version?

There is only one version, two licenses.

You can see as if you pay for support, you get another licence option more, but you allways have the rights GPL gives to you.

Also, what exactly do they mean with "gives faster access to updates" - I suppose a lot of the updates will be security fixes - will those be released with a delay to those not paying?

Related to this issue, the press release do not clarify a lot, but I have checked and there is a MNF subdir in the updates directory in the Mandrake ftp mirrors, that doesn't was there some days ago, so I have to conclude that security updates will be available as in any other Mandrake Soft product.

As I have heard from some people, your posibilities with Mandrake Soft software are wider, as you can install MNF specific develpments over your Mandrake Linux 9.0 as the RPM are in contrib.

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