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Dana, what is the best way to comercialize an open source project? I think

the answer will be in the size and type of project.

But, in many cases, we have a non-profit group running the project, and it is commercialized by other for-profit companies that then contribute. Examples are the Linux kernel, Apache, SQLite.

For others, there are contributors outside, but the primary contributor and controller of the project is a for profit company. Examples include MySQL, JBoss.

Then there is whether or not the primary contributor/owner of a project owns all of the copyrights and can dual license the code. MySQL, BerkeleyDB.

Of course there are licenses that make dual licensing unnecessary, because they are permissive like BSD, MIT.

And that brings up another point. Will this company try to maintain the copyrights and dual license ability?

Posted by: DonnieBoy   Posted on: 11/18/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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