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Subject: A discussion of hybrid open source and proprietary licensing models.

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  • From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall AT gmail.com>
  • To: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
  • Cc: cc-bizcom AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-bizcom] Dual Licensing
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:32:31 -0700

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:19:43 +0100, Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com> wrote:
> For the FSF it's so they can more efficiently defend the code under the
> GPL, which uses copyright law. It's less efficient that a simple CVS
> commit, I agree, but more efficient than waiting for a frivolous lawsuit or
> a major license infraction to require that the copyrights be identified and
> defended. The FSF can get away with this becasue they are a nonprofit and
> becasue the GPL keeps the code and its derivatives available for everyone
> to use anyway.

MySQL also requires contributors (who are mostly employed by MySQL...
but there are others) to assign copyright. This is so there is one
legal entity to enforce copyright. This should work with any
copyright license, however, the GPL just so happens to need specific
enforcement.

Joe




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