On 10/10/12 02:49 PM, Roel_D wrote: > I am still wondering how a company can take opensource products and build a > commercial closed source around it.
It all depends on the license terms that the copyright owner chooses to make the code available under. Many open source licenses offer terms that allow making closed source derivatives - for those that don't, some copyright holders will offer alternative license terms allowing closed source usage as part of some contract. Famous examples of those include Qt & MySQL, which were offered under the GPL license (requiring sharing your sources) for free, or a commercial license if you were willing to pay them for it. There should be plenty of websites you can read up more on this topic, such as http://opensource.org/ since the openindiana list isn't the best place for the general discussion of open source licensing, especially of products that aren't openindiana. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
