Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:43:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:43:43 -0400 Received: from mailb.telia.com ([194.22.194.6]:38111 "EHLO mailb.telia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:43:42 -0400 X-Original-Recipient: From: Roger Larsson To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Funding GPL projects or funding the GPL? Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 19:46:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.5 References: <20020727085931.X26813@work.bitmover.com> <20020727092223.B26813@work.bitmover.com> In-Reply-To: <20020727092223.B26813@work.bitmover.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200207271946.11727.roger.larsson@skelleftea.mail.telia.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1002 Lines: 25 On Saturday 27 July 2002 18.22, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 01:06:56PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > Actually, that's an interesting topic. Other applications could use > the BK model of "free if you're out in the open" and pay otherwise. > It's pretty effective. However, it doesn't work very well when the > community beats you to hell for not being GPLed. I had a thick enough > skin to deal with it, I doubt others would, they'd give up. It also > doesn't work when people refuse to obey the license because they > don't agree with it (we had plenty of that). Trolltech does the same. And have taken the same amount of heat. (Probably A LOT more... since their Qt is the base for KDE) /RogerL -- Roger Larsson Skellefte? Sweden - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/