Re:Meteor meets NoGPL
by davidw on Friday April 13, 2012 @08:42AM
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GPL with the dual licensed business model is fine with me, but they ought to be a bit clearer about that and state it up front. Also, is there a company the copyright is assigned to? It's not very clear at Meteor.com. Wandering around, I got this, which talks about "Meteor Development Group" ( http://www.meteor.com/contact ), but... there's no Inc or LLC or anything like that.
Also, when they talk about contributing, they don't write about having to sign a copyright assignment, which they must do if they want to continue to own the copyright to the whole thing, and thus be able to dual license it.
Furthermore, "get in touch and we'll write you a commercial license" doesn't sound like something very easy to evaluate, compared to, say, a pricing page. "Well, how much ya got, anyway?"
It is pretty early for them, though, it would appear, so maybe it's much ado about nothing, and as they work things out, they'll make things clearer and/or change the license.
Also, when they talk about contributing, they don't write about having to sign a copyright assignment, which they must do if they want to continue to own the copyright to the whole thing, and thus be able to dual license it.
Furthermore, "get in touch and we'll write you a commercial license" doesn't sound like something very easy to evaluate, compared to, say, a pricing page. "Well, how much ya got, anyway?"
It is pretty early for them, though, it would appear, so maybe it's much ado about nothing, and as they work things out, they'll make things clearer and/or change the license.