Licenses
and
Business Models
in
FOSS
Kevin Ottens
- Introduction
- Who? Why? Where?
- Licenses
- Business Models
- Ethics
Free
and
Open Source
Software
Origins
Hackers Culture
1980
First restrictives EULA
1983
Richard Stallman launches GNU
1985
Free Software Foundation, GPL
1998
“Open Source”
Free Software
==
Open Source?
Free Software
==
Public Domain?
NOT
FOSS
vs
Commercial Software
Free Software
vs
Proprietary Software
“Free beer”
vs
“Free speech”
Freedoms
- Use
- Study
- Modify
- Distribute
| | Use | Copy | Modify |
| Proprietary | | | |
| Shareware | | | |
| Freeware | | | |
| Free Software | | | |
Total Cost of Ownership
Part of something greater
Public Relations
Copyleft?
GPL
60-70%
Cecill
Weak copyleft
LGPL
MPL 1.1
GPL incompatible
Non copyleft
Original BSD
GPL incompatible
Apache License
1.0 & 1.1
GPL incompatible
Cecill-B
GPL and Cecill incompatible
… but less than in the proprietary world!
Is software like material goods?
First copy is expensive to produce…
Others are almost free to produce
Non-Rival
Anti-Rival
Proprietary
forces
Artificial Scarcity
FOSS
implies
Post-scarcity Economy
Sharing Maintainance
More an economic incentive that one…
I consider selling exceptions an acceptable thing for a company to do,
and I will suggest it where appropriate as a way to get programs freed.
Richard Stallman
Base for Proprietary Products
Proprietary Service
on top of
Free Building Blocks
Open Core
Why would I care?
Answer is personal, but you have to have one!
Caring for the Commons
Managing Expectations
Democracy?
Rights?
Remember Double License and Open Core?
CLA
CLA vs CLA
CLA with non-profit
CLA with company
Contribution Asymmetry
MySQL -> Sun -> Oracle
FLA
KDE Free-Qt Foundation