Dual-licensing is unfair and community debilitating
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| Indeed, regular open source community developers are usually:
|
| * Free to exert their IP (copy)rights at any time, any way they want
| * Free to offer contributions approved by the community
| * Free to fork new versions
| * Overall free to produce work in the best interest of the community
|
| In current dual-licensed models, none of these basic open source freedoms can
| be easily –if at all- exercised. Icing on the cake, the open source company
| is not forced to contribute back to the community.
|
| [...]
|
| For all of the reasons above, many developers are not keen to the idea of
| dual licensing. They don’t like the idea of their contribution released as
| proprietary, nor are they found of this idea of given up all of their IP
| rights. MySQL for instance has a much less thriving community than that of
| PostgeSQL.
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http://blog.milkingthegnu.org/2008/05/exisiting-dual.html
Recent:
Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year
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| Sun is to open source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move that
| should make it possible to fully integrate the software into Linux
| distributions.
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http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39208906,00.htm
Open Source Java Technology Debuts In GNU/Linux Distributions
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| Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), Canonical Ltd. and Red Hat, Inc.
| (NYSE: RHT), today announced the inclusion of OpenJDK-based
| (http://openjdk.java.net) implementations in Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 Long
| Term Support (LTS) Server and Desktop editions, furthering the promise of
| Sun's open source Java technology initiative.
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http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-04/sunflash.20080430.1.xml
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