26 Jun
2003
26 Jun
'03
1:19 p.m.
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Le 26 Juin 2003 03:11, Denis Sbragion a écrit :
Here's a good case study:
http://www.hiit.fi/u/valimaki/dual_licensing.pdf
DRC would be great for the living-room PC market.
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Marc
I'm even willing to allow the use of DRC for free
even for commercial
use, provided that it is used the right way, not just as a way to put a
"Digital room correction" sticker in front of an almost empty box, and
provided also that any improvement to the software coming from the
commercial use is also released for free under terms similar to those of
the AFPL or the GPL.
What you want to prevent is misuse of your source code. No free licenses
can't prevent this, not even the AFPL. As an example, Sigma Designs
"borrowed" the source of xvid (a mpeg4 codec released as GPL) for their
own closed source mpeg4 codec; some clever hacker discovered this by
disassembling their codec. After a protest storm, Sigma Designs
apologized and released their codec as GPL. The most effective
protection for free software is education and vigilance; when nobody
cares, snake oils companies feels free to steal.
Dual licensing
might be an option too ?
uhh, that's a good idea! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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