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