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By: 451 CAOS Theory » Alfresco’s new Activiti en route to Apache

451 CAOS Theory » Alfresco’s new Activiti en route to Apache — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:48:35 +0000

[...] project and generate revenue from its complementary products and services (see also “A capitalist guide to open source licensing”). However, it seems likely that Activiti could also be a prelude to a more liberally-licensed [...]

By: 451 CAOS Theory » On the fall and rise of the GNU GPL

451 CAOS Theory » On the fall and rise of the GNU GPL — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:03:20 +0000

[...] have also pointed to increased use of more permissive licenses, either in order to encourage widespread adoption and rapid community formation, or to enable easier integration with proprietary [...]

By: 451 CAOS Theory » As the GPL fades

451 CAOS Theory » As the GPL fades — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:58:08 +0000

[...] of the two and the best way to achieve commercial success with open source software. As Matt highlights, we are seeing a choice of non-GPL licensing in order to more effectively foster community and [...]

By: Matthew Aslett

Matthew Aslett — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:16:40 +0000

Thanks Russ

By: Matthew Aslett

Matthew Aslett — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:16:11 +0000

Thanks for the insight Kirk

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By: Open Source Licensing and Community - Russ Danner’s Blog

Open Source Licensing and Community - Russ Danner’s Blog — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:10:21 +0000

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By: Kirk Wylie

Kirk Wylie — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:25:55 +0000

OpenGamma faced this precise question early-on in its life as we released the Fudge Messaging project out into the wilds. We also have some very good lawyers who are fully aware of Open Source licensing, who actually seemed quite shocked and impressed that we chose the APLv2. My opinion? Aside from the copyright-assignment issues above, you're going to start seeing more people going with APL-style licenses going forward; the potential commercial advantages you get out of avoiding the FSF licenses is completely dwarfed by the perceptual problems you have with going with a *GPL* license.

By: Rdanner

Rdanner — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:04:13 +0000

Some thoughts on the relevancy of Licensing with respect to community

http://blogs.rivetlogic.com/rdanner/2010/01/16/open-source-licensing-and-community/

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:28:47 +0000

[...] A capitalist’s guide to open source licensing Matt’s statement suggests, and he confirmed in a follow-up, that it is harder to build a community with a restrictive license. The obvious argument against that statement is the number of community projects based around GPL code: the Linux kernel, the GNU project, Samba, Drupal, Gnome, and KDE for example. [...]

By: Matthew Aslett

Matthew Aslett — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:46:11 +0000

Agreed. See my response to Ian.

By: Matthew Aslett

Matthew Aslett — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:45:43 +0000

This is true. Licensing is of course just part of the bigger picture, which we will be considering again in an update to our Open Source is Not a Business Model report, later in the year.

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By: Don Marti

Don Marti — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:45:27 +0000

Comparing licenses without comparing copyright assignment policies doesn’t work. A strong reciprocal license without a strong assignment policy actually prevents some direct monetization strategies.

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By: Ashok

Ashok — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:55:58 +0000

Great post. There are also factors beyond just the license. Though TurboCASH is GPL I am seeing bitter comments about requiring registration.

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:07:30 +0000

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By: Ian Skerrett

Ian Skerrett — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:21:49 +0000

Matt,

I think the governance model is just as important as a license decision. If a company wants to have indirect revenue from a widely deployed platform, they stand a much better chance of success doing this in an existing community like Apache, Eclipse, etc. A vendor-neutral governance model provided by these Foundations make it more inviting for others to adopt the platform.

Keep up the great posts.

Ian Skerrett
Eclipse Foundation

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