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> or by contacting Element for an alternative license Ah, selling exceptions. Even Stallman thinks this is legit. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exce
by jordigh 3y ago
> or by contacting Element for an alternative license
Ah, selling exceptions. Even Stallman thinks this is legit.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html
- mgbmtl 3y agoA long time ago, I remember a MySQL talk where they explained dual-license as "if you make money, then we make money", while keeping the product FOSS. I think it's a reasonable simplification. And if the company changes the licence, then a A/GPL fork can survive (c.f. Hashicorp, which could have probably avoided their issues with a better licence from the start, but at the time no one expected to be eclipsed by big cloud providers with infinite resources).
- Cu3PO42 3y agoWhile I don't agree with everything Stallman says and does, I really do appreciate that his position on this issue is not just another axiom, but follows purely from other positions he had already established.