[Owncloud] company/community relationship

[Klaas Freitag]

On 17.08.2012 22:30, Thomas Tanghus wrote:

Hi

>> - All members of the ownCloud community understand that ownCloud Inc. can
>> sell proprietary licenses for ownCloud to its customers. As in many Open
>> Source companies, parts of the proceeds flow back into the ownCloud
>> community, e.g. through sponsorships or employing ownCloud community
>> developers.
>
> "Given the open AGPL licensing scheme ownCloud Inc. (and others) can choose to
> sell proprietary licenses and equally develop optional proprietary plugins for
> it's customers, while..."
>
This is not true AFAIU: Others can NOT sell proprietary licenses. You 
need the agreement by all involved copyright holders to change the 
license, which only the Inc. can get. Not sure about plugins.

Klaaas