[Owncloud] company/community relationship

[Roland van Laar]

On 08/18/2012 07:37 AM, 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.

I can't find anything about the licensing terms for contributors.
How is ownCloud selling proprietary licenses if the contributors code is 
AGPL?

Regards,

Roland van Laar
>
> Klaaas
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