[Owncloud] company/community relationship

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 18.08.2012, at 17:42, Roland van Laar <roland at micite.net> wrote:

> 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?


That´s true. I will send a mail about this in a few minutes.


Frank