Kuhn: Canonical, Ltd. Finally On Record: Seeking Open Core [LWN.net]

Kuhn: Canonical, Ltd. Finally On Record: Seeking Open Core

Posted Oct 18, 2010 22:27 UTC (Mon) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)
In reply to: Kuhn: Canonical, Ltd. Finally On Record: Seeking Open Core by michaeljt
Parent article: Kuhn: Canonical, Ltd. Finally On Record: Seeking Open Core

Here's a non-exhaustive list of projects that Canonical feels copyright assignment is necessary for:

http://www.canonical.com/contributors

Add to that much of the utouch stack (gies, grail, ginn, grope, etc...) and the new font.

-jef

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Kuhn: Canonical, Ltd. Finally On Record: Seeking Open Core

Posted Oct 19, 2010 8:32 UTC (Tue) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

> Here's a non-exhaustive list of projects that Canonical feels copyright assignment is necessary for:
>
> http://www.canonical.com/contributors
>
> Add to that much of the utouch stack (gies, grail, ginn, grope, etc...) and the new font.

Most of those don't look very interesting for dual licencing (which I think is mainly good for software libraries that might be useful for non-free software - Qt being a prime example), with a possible big exception for the utouch stack. I can see though that some might be good for open core (e.g. plugins to use Bazaar in combination with some proprietary systems that don't interest FLOSS developers enough for them to produce free alternatives, or integrating some of the infrastructure tools into semi-proprietary phone OSes).

Personally I wish Canonical success in pulling that off and still keep the juicy bits FLOSS.