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[Feature Request]: dual licensing model in consideration? #58
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This is actually the main reason that it is blocking me from releasing the beta version of the v4.0 (which is already functionally complete)!
Thank you again for your appreciation of this project! I have some doubts concerning the possible stream of income, though. For the moment, the ideal license I was thinking of would require any commercial app developer to at least share any eventual changes to the library.
Some of my latest changes to bit7z v4.0 addressed removing any unnecessary usage of code from the 7-zip project. As a final note, once I've finally decided which license model to use, I'll have to open a pull request with the changes and ask all the other contributors to accept them. |
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Aren't there any plans for dual licensing model of this library? So that there is a free-of-charge GPL version for non-commercial users and also a commercial version with which customers can pay the author and be allowed to link this library to their commercial closed-source software?
I think it could have lots of benefits:
I do not know however if this is possible. I am no licensing expert. Doesn't it breach 7Zip license?
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