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It's often difficult to use GPL libraries commercially anyways. One way of handling things is to just make it GPL, and sell an alternative proprietary license.
by slavik81 11y ago
It's often difficult to use GPL libraries commercially anyways. One way of handling things is to just make it GPL, and sell an alternative proprietary license. Qt does this quite successfully, and the FSF thinks its a reasonable way of doing things.
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoAh, yes, that's what I was thinking about. If you dual-license as "free with GPL or pay for alternative license", companies likely won't use the GPL option because they don't want their own code to end up GPL'd. This strategy probably works much better if your customers are big companies with IP lawyers than if they're a startup or a random hacker building a service.