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Making Money In Open Source

Posted by Hemos on from the how-to-make-money-in-open-source dept.

Khalid writes "An interview with Sleepycat President and CEO, Michael Olson, it brings a lot of interesting information about their business model and licensing scheme. A lot of good ideas, when a lot of open source based companies are struggling for life. "

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  1. Re:A lot like TrollTech by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...or Ghostscript/GhostView or Sendmail or listproc or Borland (Delphi, Interbase) or... they work/are working the same way.

  2. Re:They did not say several important things: by update() · · Score: 4, Informative
    I'm not a license enthusiast, let alone a lawyer, but my ignorant guess is:

    1: No, just like you can't reuse GPL code under the (less restrictive / more Free depending on which camp you belong to) BSD license.

    2: Reading the license I don't see why not.

    3: He says in the interview, "Both Sleepycat and the Free Software Foundation have looked hard at the two licenses, and we agree that the Sleepycat license is compatible with the GPL."