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If you maid a difference between student and XYZ Corp in your

Well, I've done a little more reading, this time on other's licensing.
I could very well add the stipulation that if XYZ Corp wanted to
redistribute a proprietary closed product based on our work, then they
would need to license the software from QorTek in a different manner
not by GPL/LGPL. The non-GPL/LGPL should not contain 3rd party
contributed source without permission or some other agreement in place. 

Nicolas as you noted with MySQL

Example, MySQL allows anyone to use/redistribute/sell MySQL so long as
the source is made available. However, they have a secondary model
that allows for redistribution of closed software by purchase of a
separate license. This discourages closed software but does not make
it impossible.

My reasoning for a closed licensing agreement:
Again, I don’t want to start a flame war, but, sometimes there IS A
NEED for closed software, case in point, military based applications.
Since QorTek deals with military type contracts, we are obligated to
keep certain things proprietary, and if they wish to include OUR LGPL
work as part of a system, I’m sure they would not want to divulge how
the entire systems works.

There will be no response from me to anyone that has to do with the
previous paragraph relating to beliefs on open vs. closed software
(PERIOD)

Pending CEO approval, QorTek will be releasing the IP under LGPL.

Nicolas, Thank you for your help in clearing this up.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Nicolas Boulay<nico@s...> 
To: 
Date: Wed Nov 16 20:08:04 CET 2005 
Subject: [oc] GNU GPL or Lesser questions 

> If you maid a difference between student and XYZ Corp in your 
> licence, you 
> don't do 'free software' anymore. 
> You could use GPL or LGPL to force user to publish there 
> modification to your 
> core. If you own all the copyright, you could also sell 
> "closed" version of 
> your code, like Trolltech do for Qt and MySQL Labs with Mysql. 
> Nicolas Boulay 
> Le mercredi 16 Novembre 2005 19:40, dsp at mail2.qortek.com a 
> écrit : 
> > I've read over both GPL and GNU Lesser licenses, and have one 
> concern. 
> > Hopefully someone here has experience or can offer an 
> explanation. 
> > 
> > My concern is this: 
> > I've written/am writing core modules for my TI Dev board 
> project, and 
> > want to release these cores as 'free software' to individuals, 
> > however, would like those that would use this set of cores in 
> a 
> > profitable way to contribute back to QorTek in one form or 
> another. 
> > 
> > I have no problem with students/individuals using these cores 
> for 
> > school/personal projects, in fact I encourage them to do so. 
> But if 
> > XYZ Corp wants to use the cores in verbatim/modified form and 
> sell 
> > that software based on these cores, is there a way to impose 
> fees on 
> > them? Is there another license that covers this? 
> > 
> > I dont want to start any flame wars, I'm just new to GNU 
> GPL/Lesser 
> > and general software licenses. 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance. 
> > Brian 
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