If you are the creator of the original work, you can and are
completely within your right as a creator to do whatever you want with
your creation.
That being said, if you want to use the GPL as a foundation, and add
customized limitations to it for particular use (non-asp) or
commercial license caveats, etc. You are entirely authorized.
The only time you are unable to modify the GPL is if you inherited it
from another creator/author. When this happens, you are stuck with
what you got. If you want to make customizations, you must first
extract yours to be independent of the original work, then you can
license that individually. There are more caveats to this, but that
doesn’t sound even close to what you intent is anyways.
Some of the nicer licenses I have seen are the dual sorts. Something
of a MySQL style offering, where you do both a commercial license and
a open source license.
This allows you to help the non-profits and non-commercial entities
out there as well as pleasing those who want the commercial elements
of support, assurance of continued development and enhancements, etc.
I am bipolar when it comes to this licensing. Some days I completely
agree with it, other days when I rehash the concept my gut goes into
knots.
This is likely due to my heart wanting to go pure open source and
trust in man kind to donate and give back, but my mind knowing that it
simply wont pay the bills and people just aren’t as giving as I hope
so as to sustain myself with food and shelter.
It’s a mixed bag, but find out what your goals are. Ruby on Rails has
licened theirs as open as it gets under the MIT and has brought major
business INDIRECTLY to their products. While MySQL has the dual
license and directly pays their bills while still offering a free
alternative to the world.
Ideals are nice, but reality needs to be included in your choice.
But overall, open source is a VERY good thing no matter how you slice
it. Just how much open source you decide to slice off is a question
that only a bit of personal reflection will answer for you.
Nathaniel.
On 4/2/07, Wybo W. [email protected] wrote:
The LogiLogi project also uses this license.
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