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Thoughts about Dual-licensing Open Source software
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| Note that releasing your code as BSD for a project that has or may have GPL
| code doesn't protect your code from being dual-licensed in an unfavorable
| way. The only way to ensure full freedom for others is to only donate your
| code under a contributor agreement with a clause as suggested below or to a
| project that has agreeable guidelines for how they license their code!
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| To assure our users, contributors, and customers of how we at Monty Program
| Ab intend to re-license the code we produce or the code people donate to us,
| I have added the following note to our contributor agreement:
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| "Monty Program Ab agrees that when it dual licenses code, it will not
| restrict the way the third party licensee uses the licensed copy of the code
| nor restrict how they use their own code."
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http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/08/thoughts-about-dual-licensing-open.html
Recent:
The MySQL Librarian Initiative
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| The MySQL Librarian initiative is very young, at the moment there are about
| 200 items, 130 of them are presentations, 30 videos plus pictures and books.
| Six months from now Iâll ping Giuseppe to know how it goes.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2009/07/19/the-mysql-librarian-initiative/
What Oracle gets with MySQL
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| MySQL, in other words, is a great example of how Oracle can make open source
| pay. MySQL is much more like Oracle than I originally thought.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10227921-16.html
Interview: Karen Tegan Padir, MySQL VP, On This Week's MySQL Conference
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| OStatic: What do you think are the biggest barriers to adoption of open
| source in business? Lack of support? Lack of evangelism and marketing? Lack
| of training?
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| I don't think it's any of those things, I just think it's just a matter of
| time. I worked at Red Hat for several years. When I worked there,
| conventional wisdom said that Linux was a toy, that it wasn't reliable or
| ready for mission-critical deployment. People sure aren't saying that
| anymore!
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http://ostatic.com/blog/interview-karen-tegan-padir-mysql-vp-on-this-weeks-mysql-conference
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