An alternative to Dual Licensing

In a previous post, we have made our point that dual licensing was unfair and community debilitating.

In a search for a better solution, I met this weekend with Ludovic Dubost CEO, Founder and original contributor of XWiki. XWiki.com is making its income out of enterprise support, software guarantees and integration projects. This last part being a substantial source of revenues for XWiki.com

In January 2006 Ludovic faced an important decision: at that time, XWiki was a GNU GPL project with a reasonably growing community but because of it Ludovic was loosing integrations/outsourcing contracts. Some of his potentially largest customers were not comfortable with the GNU GPL.

Read more at Milking The GNU Blog