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hm, how would you pursue this in practice? Should a company open its
books, and for whom and to check what exactly?<br>
My naive, admittedly pretty uneducated idea was that in this cosmos of
coexistence open source and business both are free, based only on the
licensing text and the contributor agreements. But maybe I
misunderstood something in this thread and misinterpret now.<br>
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-Peter<br>
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<pre wrap="">Andrea Aime wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I might be wrong on the details, but the spirit was "it's ok
as long as money it goes back into growing the project".
The idea is, it would be a channel to allow entities that are
scared off by the GPL to support the project evolution nonetheless.
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Andrea,
I agree. Alternate licensing pursued by the PSC with resulting
funds held on behalf of the project would seem reasonable to me.
Best regards,
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