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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Posted May 18, 2011 8:05 UTC (Wed) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software by kleptog
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

> That said, what does a good contributor agreement give you (or anybody) that requiring all contributions to be BSD licensed doesn't.

Perhaps you don't want anyone to be able to use your code, but you do want it to get into this one commercial product. VirtualBox lets you choose between MIT licencing and a contributor agreement.


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