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Dual licensing of 3rd-party Genode components | 2018-11-16
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| To nurture a sustainable ecosystem around the Genode OS framework, we
| introduce a new approach for conducting dual-licensing businesses enabled
| by Genode.
Since founded ten years ago, Genode Labs pursues the Genode project based on a
dual-licensing business model, which allows us to fund the development of
Genode as an independent team. The licensing business is enabled by the
combination of the AGPLv3 as a strong copyleft license with the library-like
nature of Genode. Until today, this model is applicable to our framework but
impractical for 3rd-party component developers. To foster a sustainable
ecosystem around Genode, we wish to enable others to pursue a similar business
model while maintaining the spirit of open collaboration and free software.
We eventually crafted a new license called "Genode Component Public License"
(Genode CPL) specifically for components developed by 3rd parties, outside of
Genode Labs. The article
[https://genode.org/documentation/articles/component_public_license - Dual licensing of 3rd-party Genode components]
provides the rationale, license text, and FAQ of this software license.
Sculpt with Visual Composition | 2018-09-21
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