[Haskell-cafe] LGPL and Haskell

[wren ng thornton]

On 12/13/12 9:30 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> Alfredo Di Napoli <alfredo.dinapoli at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Let me just chime in to give my 2 cents; I quote Micheal 100%; if we want
>> to push Haskell out of the academic/open source world to the "real world",
>> well, GPL is not the way to go, due to its viral nature.
>
> just to throw in a different argument: there's also the concept of
> dual-licensing[1,2] to accomodate both the F/OSS users as well as the
> commercial users...

I'm a big fan of dual-licensing. It's an underutilized tactic for 
overcoming the competing forces of commercial success and F/OSS success.

Moreover, in my experience, those companies which refuse to have 
anything to do with the GPL tend to be more than willing to pay for a 
corporate license. Just remember: money isn't evil, it's proprietarism 
that's evil.

-- 
Live well,
~wren