Subj : *nix Licenses
To   : Richard Falken
From : Kai Richter
Date : Fri Jan 08 2021 23:21:26

Hello Richard!

08 Jan 21, Richard Falken wrote to Kai Richter:

 >> So if i tell you it does not work, then it is still your
 >> responsibility to f a way that will work for me.

 RF> Agreed, but I don't think it is a big deal still.

 RF> I mean, you don't even need to have the source code publicly
 RF> available. If one of your customers wants it enough to phone you in
 RF> for it, you just send him a copy somehow. The only thing you need to
 RF> do is to have the source code provisioned in your own facilities if
 RF> you don't trust upstream to keep repositories available undefinitedly.

Yes. But we are talking about business. In other words you have to be prepared.

 RF> Just in case I made it not clear, what I meant is that it is not a
 RF> big deal in the sense that it does not affect your business model
 RF> much.

If you are not prepared your competitor can take advantage of that and the cost of the lawsuit could ruin your business. For a business that don't want to spend some 100red bucks to a lawyer a lawsuits will be a big neckbreaking deal.

 RF> If you sell hardware appliances then having to opensource the
 RF> software you are running is unlikely to make you sell less machines,
 RF> in a significative number at least.

He wants to use third party software. I didn't find a license for that fuitbox stuff he wants to use but i did not dig deep. If it's a selfmade licence then you need to go into details for a forecast of the adverse effects.

Regards

Kai

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