From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-15 05:40:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:40:32 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3F3CD4C0.4000803@noplace.com> References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> <1060696097.54858@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F3A306D.4050302@noplace.com> <1060785619.779768@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <0_t_a.4391$kp4.708785@news20.bellglobal.com> <3F3B880D.9080509@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.a5.03.3c Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 15 Aug 2003 12:42:55 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41501 Date: 2003-08-15T12:42:55+00:00 List-Id: Robert Leif came up with at least one mechanism for compensation in his ADCL. I have some reservations about it because of practical considerations where I think it might be difficult to get acceptance of it from a potential commercial exploiter. But the basic idea is sound. I could probably come up with fifty ways of handling the licensing if I wanted to sit here and type all day. ;-) Consider this: 90% of everything someone is turning loose out there under the GPL has little to no commercial value. At least not enough that its worth trying to find someone violating your license and prosecuting them. So a license that allows personal/business use but not commercial exploitation isn't really a problem, is it? For the remaining 10% that might have some commercial resale potential you merely have to have a mechanism for establishing a suitable license and collecting/distributing the fees. You form up a clearinghouse or foundation or whatever you want to call it - some organization that is going to be responsible for handling this. It has a handful of commercial licenses available to a potential buyer and it has some algorithm for parceling out the profits to the contributors of any work that gets purchased. Basically, if you released your work under the non-commercial license you'd have the option of registering the work with the clearinghouse so that one day, if it becomes the next Linux, RedHat comes to the clearinghouse and gets a resale license from them. Then you win, RedHat wins, the rest of the geek community wins, the clearinghouse wins, everybody wins. MDC Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > > "Not unless you compensate me." > > Well, then, "how much?". "Under what terms?" "For how long?" "Can I > compete?" "Can I sell it to 3rd parties? To terrorists? To the > military?" "Can I modify and redistribute it?" > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================