From 4cffefe1dd9082298791ca043d1c581c9620c225 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norman Feske Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:53:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] News item about Genode Component Public License --- doc/news.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/news.txt b/doc/news.txt index 9bd113941..46574eb4a 100644 --- a/doc/news.txt +++ b/doc/news.txt @@ -4,6 +4,29 @@ =========== +Dual licensing of 3rd-party Genode components | 2018-11-16 +########################################################## + +| To nurture a sustainable ecosystem around the Genode OS framework, we +| introduce a new approach for conducting dual-licensing businesses enabled +| by Genode. + +Since founded ten years ago, Genode Labs pursues the Genode project based on a +dual-licensing business model, which allows us to fund the development of +Genode as an independent team. The licensing business is enabled by the +combination of the AGPLv3 as a strong copyleft license with the library-like +nature of Genode. Until today, this model is applicable to our framework but +impractical for 3rd-party component developers. To foster a sustainable +ecosystem around Genode, we wish to enable others to pursue a similar business +model while maintaining the spirit of open collaboration and free software. + +We eventually crafted a new license called "Genode Component Public License" +(Genode CPL) specifically for components developed by 3rd parties, outside of +Genode Labs. The article +[https://genode.org/documentation/articles/component_public_license - Dual licensing of 3rd-party Genode components] +provides the rationale, license text, and FAQ of this software license. + + Sculpt with Visual Composition | 2018-09-21 ###########################################