Re: [ng-spice] Other consideration on NGSpice


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From Manu Rouat <emmanuel.rouat@wanadoo.fr>
Date Tue, 01 Feb 2000 19:58:50 -0500
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Francesco Doni wrote:

> Upon this consideration my idea was to constitute all together
> such as a no-profit organization under which develop and distribute
> freely NGSpice, only companies which would use the software
> within a commercial product should be charge for it, of course
> in a competitive and reasonable way.


No - if we stick to the GPL, there is no way we can enforce any
charging whatsoever.

I disagree with your view. If the project succeeds and organisations
are interested, then setting up some sort of organisation around the
software is perfectly possible, but within the limits of the GPL (the
way Cygnus or the FSF work for instance)

manu



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