[Owncloud] company/community relationship

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Saturday 18 August 2012 08:37 Klaas Freitag wrote:
> 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.

Ah, darned licenses. I can never figure out what you can and what you can't, 
but I guess you're right.

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards

Thomas Tanghus