[ros-kernel] Microsoft Give-Away

[Jakob Eriksson]

Waldo Alvarez Cañizares wrote:

>I was thinking that it could be convenient if ReactOS where licensed a little bit different to GPL.
> Something like a relaxed GPL. My point is that with GPL you can profit but it has the major flaw 
>that when you give away your code you are in fact helping competitors with the inversion you
>did. I was thinking that something more relaxed like "Ok if you want you can close it  but only for a while".
>Could call some companies to invest money in ReactOS. I mean profit with exclusive rights for a while but later 
>open the sources because I gave you mine so you could profit. That way ReactOS could be mantained by some
>companies but they will be forced to open it up on regular basis. That time in my opinion should not be long (3 months - 2 years depending 
>on the magnitude of  the closed component)
>because none of us wants old software right? Now to close some component of the system for a while
>companies should pay something to the foundation (maybe to programmers of those components too). I mean like rent 
>a component. Of course some components should never be closed. And I think that also there should be the restriction that
>if someone finds a BUG should provide a patch to the original codebase. I know that this could contain some flaws and sure
>I think it should be discussed a lot before any actions. So... What do you thing guys?
>  
>

This is a little bit how MySQL AB works.  (Except they own all the 
copyright themselves, so they can dual
license everything, they don't need come up with a special version of GPL.)

regards,
Jakob