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I dual license my software using GPLv3 and don't feel like I fall in any of your categories. If a user wants to integrate my software into their commercial sof

by Kranar 6y ago

I dual license my software using GPLv3 and don't feel like I fall in any of your categories. If a user wants to integrate my software into their commercial software, then they in turn pay me for their commercial use of my software. If a user wants to integrate my software into their software to distribute it freely, then they don't pay me. The only time a problem exists is when someone wants to integrate my software into their software for commercial purposes and doesn't want to pay me for it.

xyzzy_plugh 6y ago
Yeah you're very clearly in the third category, further described under the second point.
- Kranar 6y ago
  I don't see how that's the case. There are corporations that use the GPL'd version of my software without issue. They use my software internally and also extend it with custom functionality for their own business purposes and have absolutely no issue doing so. There are also corporations that use the commercial license of my software in situations where they wish to release software commercially to other parties. I also do the same myself. Internally within my company I use Linux and MySQL, both of which are GPL'd software and I am a very happy user of both software products and never felt like I was restricted in how I can use them. If I wish to incorporate MySQL into commercial software, then I'd need to pay Oracle for a license, but I have no need to do that. In what way is any of this incredibly restrictive? At any rate, I don't know that we're going to change one another's minds on this issue, all I can say is that there seems to be a fairly substantial group of users who do not feel restricted in how they use very popular GPL software such as Ad Block, Wordpress, Git, Linux, MySQL. I use all of those and never once felt like they restricted my usage.
pjmlp 6y ago
That is exactly my point of view. Good luck keeping it that way.

by Kranar 6y ago

xyzzy_plugh 6y ago

Yeah you're very clearly in the third category, further described under the second point.

Kranar 6y ago
I don't see how that's the case. There are corporations that use the GPL'd version of my software without issue. They use my software internally and also extend it with custom functionality for their own business purposes and have absolutely no issue doing so. There are also corporations that use the commercial license of my software in situations where they wish to release software commercially to other parties. I also do the same myself. Internally within my company I use Linux and MySQL, both of which are GPL'd software and I am a very happy user of both software products and never felt like I was restricted in how I can use them. If I wish to incorporate MySQL into commercial software, then I'd need to pay Oracle for a license, but I have no need to do that. In what way is any of this incredibly restrictive? At any rate, I don't know that we're going to change one another's minds on this issue, all I can say is that there seems to be a fairly substantial group of users who do not feel restricted in how they use very popular GPL software such as Ad Block, Wordpress, Git, Linux, MySQL. I use all of those and never once felt like they restricted my usage.

pjmlp 6y ago

That is exactly my point of view. Good luck keeping it that way.