Actually, Ghostscript has been under a dual licensing arrangement for some time in a sense. The author actually uses a license whereby it is a non-commercial use with some other restrictions and then it automatically moves to the GPL after some period of time. My suggestion would be to find a customer or company that really wants to have the software out in the market and see if they will fund. Alternatively, a number of organizations including Prime Time Freeware have had long standing arrangements with development projects as well as a "slush fund" whereby customers can add a line item to their bill which is then donated to encourage free software development. -d
Gee.. I wish you would consider stating facts rather than opinions. The Mach version is a BSD style license (it is the CMU license to be precise).
Its hard to imagine that over 20K purchasers of the MkLinux CD-ROM are just going to disappear. Not to mention the number of downloads...(mostly because no one really knows.)
The issue of "No DR4"... is simple.. there are NO plans.. it doesn't meant that there won't be a DR4 just that neither Apple nor anyone else involved wants to discuss products that don't have solid release plans...
Obvious to anyone with a recent computer science background, a microkernel (such as Mach) allows multiple OS personalities to run on the same hardware at the same time. This is called theory at this time.. not practice.
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Actually, Ghostscript has been under a dual licensing arrangement for some time in a sense. The author actually uses a license whereby it is a non-commercial use with some other restrictions and then it automatically moves to the GPL after some period of time. My suggestion would be to find a customer or company that really wants to have the software out in the market and see if they will fund. Alternatively, a number of organizations including Prime Time Freeware have had long standing arrangements with development projects as well as a "slush fund" whereby customers can add a line item to their bill which is then donated to encourage free software development. -d
Gee .. I wish you would consider stating facts
...(mostly because no one really knows.)
... is simple .. there are NO plans .. it doesn't meant that there won't be a DR4 just that neither Apple nor anyone else involved wants to discuss products that don't have solid release plans...
.. not practice.
rather than opinions. The Mach version is a BSD style license (it is the CMU license to be precise).
Its hard to imagine that over 20K purchasers of the MkLinux CD-ROM are just going to disappear. Not to mention the number of downloads
The issue of "No DR4"
Obvious to anyone with a recent computer science background, a microkernel (such as Mach) allows multiple OS personalities to run on the same hardware at the same time. This is called theory at this time