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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Posted May 26, 2011 8:04 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software by loftsy
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

> If the Banshee project had a copyright assignment policy then they would be in a stronger position to negotiate revenue share with the distributions.

Only if they're willing to threaten to go from a free license to a proprietary license only otherwise their position wouldn't be much stronger.

If a project do this, it wouldn't be considered anymore as a free software project I think..


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