A discussion of hybrid open source and proprietary licensing models.

["Marshall W. Van Alstyne" <marshall AT MIT.EDU>]

Rob, this is very timely; thx.

All, we're about to discuss issues raised on cc-bizcom with Sun 
Microsystems.  Suggestions for topics to explicitly raise are welcome.  You 
can post to the newsgroup or to me directly.

MVA

At 06:54 AM 5/12/2005, Rob Myers wrote:
> Yet another attempt at a more "business-friendly" Open Source license:
>
> http://news.com.com/India+eyes+own+open-source+license/2100-7344_3-5701861.html?tag=nefd.lede
>
> "Deepak Phatak of the Indian Institute of Technology has begun an effort 
> to create an open-source license that will let programmers share ideas 
> while also letting them retain the rights to their own software modifications."
>
> The problems being:
>
> 1. In programming, ideas *are* code. Not having to reimplement ideas in 
> new code is part of what makes Free Software so successful for business.
> 2. Trying to keep value from others means others will keep value from you. 
> You lose the benefits of Free Software by trying to exploit them.
>
> Licenses like Shared Source, CDDL and this one probably look great to CFOs 
> but by trying to unimaginatively extract or protect value you actually get 
> less back.
>
> - Rob.
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