I hate to say it, but this is exactly why we should be preferring copyleft
licenses. GitLab began as completely FOSS, but only later on split into the
CE and EE, which they were able to do because they used MIT.
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks Brian for your thoughts.
Only commenting on one small part:
<quote name="Brian Gerstle" date="2015-10-07" time="11:10:03
-0400">
*Pros*
- FLOSS
...ish. Not really. "Open Core".
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab#History
A view on why Open Core isn't healthy for FLOSS communities:
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/10/16/open-core-shareware.html
Greg
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