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Re: Hypothetical situation to chew on



On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:21:06PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:43:02 -0800 Josh Triplett wrote:
> 
> > I'm not referring to those who sell proprietary licenses to a separate
> > version of the software; I'm referring to those who use a copyleft
> > license and sell exceptions for people who want to link their
> > proprietary software against that copylefted software.
> 
> So you were thinking about libraries and the like, as I suspected...
> 
> In that case I can understand the rationale behing this business model.
> In other cases, I find it hard...

You're selling a licence to your app so that the recipient can modify and
resell, but they don't want to GPL their changes.

I probably wouldn't do it myself, but I can certainly envisage it as a
possibility.

- Matt

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