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

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  • From: Andrea Glorioso <sama AT miu-ft.org>
  • To: cc-bizcom AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-bizcom] Dual Licensing
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:38:21 +0200

>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com> writes:


> The FSF announced a little while ago that they would release
> their (legal) tools for supporting this process,

References?

> and Linux now requires a better audit trail IIRC.

My impression is that the tools the FSF wants to put in place won't be
very useful, since they are based on copyright assigment and the whole
mess about SCO and the Linux kernel was that (in SCO's opinion) the
developers who contributed code didn't have the copyright in the first
place.

All of this boils down to the simple fact that either we read people's
minds (so that we can know whether a particular piece of software was
copied from a copyrighted work or was a "creation") or everybody put
their code in the open (not necessarily under a Free Software license)
so that real accounting can be made.

All the other options, as far as I can tell, are either too difficult
to achieve or dangerous for everybody but big, bad companies with a
lot of money to spend in court.

Bye,

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