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Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License


From: Gregory Casamento
Subject: Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 03:45:43 -0400

Your statement here:

It gives you all the freedoms, the GPL (tm) is meant for:
- the freedom to use the software for any purpose,
- the freedom to change the software to suit your needs,
- the freedom to share the software with your friends and neighbors, and
- the freedom to share the changes you make.

Is not correct.  It is contradicted by the term here:

For commercial organisations usage is free for the first 5 concurrent named users.
Continued usage by exceeding concurrent named users needs to be licensed in a seperate, written
license agreement with IntarS Unternehmenssoftware GmbH.
This applies also to the IntarS contained in a derived work.
Commercial organisations must immediately send a mail to info@intars.de to buy required licenses.

This is mainly because you are discriminating between different types of users.  The license does not grant the same freedoms as the GPL, so I would remove the first few lines from it saying that it does since it might be misleading to some.

Greg


2013/9/17 Pirmin Braun <pb@intars.de>
we plan to license the upcoming IntarS 7 under this license.
What do you think about it?


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