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List:       userlinux-discuss
Subject:    Re: [Discuss] ISV's and Licensing
From:       Bruce Perens <bruce () perens ! com>
Date:       2003-12-12 17:45:00
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Peter Vandenabeele wrote:

>
>If it turns out that the majority of Enterprise applications will be 
>KDE/Qt based (like has been repeated over an over here)
>
I don't think we have any reason to speculate that this will be the 
case. We don't have enough enterprise applications to even make up a 
valid sample. And I think it will be attractive to many enterprise 
applications to use the desktop that is shared between HP and Sun's Unix 
workstations and a number of the major Linux distributions.

I think we also need to be real about when you need a developer license. 
You can't really get away with not having one when you "only do internal 
development", because you can't assure your process will always keep 
your application within a single legal entity. There is even question 
about whether passing applications to consultants under contract to you 
is distribution or not. If you make a mistake in that, the GPL activates 
on your application. Most companies with proprietary applications 
already want to be very careful about that.

    Thanks

    Bruce


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