Software Developed Under GPL

[Tony Zafiropoulos]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, David P. Engvall wrote:

> kclug <<
> 
> Can you give some advice that I can pass along to him and/or
> refer me to links that discuss this subject.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Dave

I hope this helps:

www.opensource.org
www.li.org

Isn't this the question: Because source is given away... how does one make
money???

1. Time or services
2. Hardware has open source drivers but does not sell software to get more
people to purchase the hardware
3. Give away the basic version and sell a 'value add' version
4. Sell the CD's but not a license (RedHat and SuSE)
5. Books... Noteriety... Speech circuit. O'Reilly is one.

Use some examples that make sense to them (not sure their background... )
Perl was given away
DNS (named)
Sendmail (and other mail programs)

And there are many licensing models which purport to be open source...
Not just GPL  (LGPL, FreeBSD Copyright, StarOffice, etc...)

Isn't there a list somewhere (can't remember now).

Happy Holidays,

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