Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

rev at armbase.com rev at armbase.com
Tue Nov 22 10:02:30 EST 2005


Quoting David Bovill <david at openpartnership.net>:

> On 21 Nov 2005, at 22:03, Mathewson wrote:
>
>> I believe that it would, ultimately, be in RR's interest to
>> release a FREE (as in totally free) version of RR for Linux
>> - possibly modified from current Linux RR versions so that
>> it cannot be used to manufacture standalones for commercial
>> platforms.
>
> The right sort of license would allow the open source code only to  
> run on open source platforms with a dual licence for closed platforms 
>  allowing charging. This would enable open source developers to  
> contribute improvements which RunRev could bundle and sell on Windows 
>  and OSX.
>
> Mind you I know of no such license (yet).

THe Guys at xara do this.
Inded this may remind Richmond of his old OS. Xara was !Artworks on 
RISC OS :-)

they sell to Windows and give it free to mac and linux.

Cheers
Bob
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