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> because nobody has done it well I believe Qt licensed LGPL + commercial and is quite successful at it

• narag 7y ago
  A project done >90% by a company is not the same as a more "horizontal" community project.
  • ben509 7y ago
    But they have to own the source to be able to dual license it.
    • narag 7y ago
      "But"? That's exactly the difference. Most of the work is done by the company so they can do more or less what they want with the project. When there are many contributors, and significant parts of the contributions have been done by people not paid by the company, dual licensing could cause all the problems described by mumblemumble. kevsim put Qt as a counterexample and I objected that they're different beasts because Qt was developed mostly by Trolltech. Later it became more of an open project, but the dual licensing arrangement is older than that.