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dual license model is "rms ok"dual license model is "rms ok"Posted Jul 27, 2004 17:44 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: Choosing an open source license (NewsForge) by JoeBuck Parent article: Choosing an open source license (NewsForge) RMS approves of the dual license business model. But Trolltech only use that model for *some* (most?) of their software. Some of their software is exclusively proprietary. Sorry I can't provide the reference, I'm running out the door as I write this. I think he spoke of this in a previous LWN.net interview. In the interview he endorsed both the MySQL and the Trolltech models, but in a follow up he clarified that hadn't known that the trolltech model was different to the MySQL one, and he retracted his endorsement.
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dual license model is "rms ok" Posted Jul 28, 2004 4:06 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Nope. He reluctantly accepts it as useful, but he believes that proprietary software is always wrong (I disagree with him on that).
if you need the reference: Posted Jul 28, 2004 13:58 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] Below that paragraph is: ``(Footnote: RMS added later: "I later learned that TrollTech does develop proprietary software. I apologize for having mentioned it erroneously.")''
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