Re: draft of a new Open Source Commercial License

[Liam Proven]

On 18 September 2013 10:18, Robert Slover <rjslover@me.com> wrote:
> I always sort of liked the Alladin license - proprietary if you wanted the 
> current release, while older releases got GPL'd. Submitted patches 
> incorporated into the (proprietary) current release, so that they took a 
> while to trickle down to the GPL'd version, providing incentive to pay for 
> it. I do not know how successful that was in general, but I paid the price a 
> couple of times (through a former employer) to get necessary new features. 
> Overall, it seemed a fair way to fund things.

Yes, I got tentative management approval at one of my companies for
that, at the start of development of a new product.

Sadly, we are still on version 1.0 at the moment - 1.0.55 right now, I
think, but we've not got to 1.1 yet.


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