[Gfoss] Fwd: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] News on ESRI's Open Source activities
Markus Neteler
neteler at itc.it
Fri Oct 20 10:10:45 CEST 2006
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:50:18PM +0200, Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
> ho dato un'occhiata al sito del progetto
> [1]http://www.52north.org/
> forse la frase piu emblematica e:
> ..."Our products are published solely under the GNU General Public License
> (GPL), but are also available * via a dual licensing model * to commercial
> users."...
> qualcuno me la sa spiegare?
> e "solely" o "dual"?
> mah
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. http://www.52north.org/
GNU General Public Licensed software e' software commerciale.
Poi fare soldi usare il software come servizio... anche attivita'
di formazione e' spesso commerciale.
Magari loro fanno confusione con proprietary software (come tanti).
Una spiegazione:
http://www.intevation.de/~jan/infos/dont_oppose_commercial_and_free_software.en.html
"Don't oppose Free Software and Commercial Software"
by J Wagner
ciao
markus
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