Re: Alternative license?

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Em 10-03-2011 00:40, Mark Smith escreveu:
> Ellaborate?  OK.
> 
> I am looking to add an RDP client to an embedded Linux product.  The
> RDP feature is only a secondary feature of the product so there is a
> lot of proprietary features that can't be poluted with copy-left
> licenses.  For example, imagine IE or Opera wanting to add a RDP
> plugin, obviously M$ or Opera would not be willing to expose their
> browser IP for the sake of a simple plug-in.
> 
> Often, a GPL project has an alternative license that can be purchased
> for developers that need a commercial friendly license that doesn't
> have the copy-left polution.
> 
> So my question is, does anyone know of a RDP implementation for Linux
> that is not copy-left, reguardless of whether it is "free" or not.
> 

I see. AFAIK, rdesktop does not have anything like that. The FreeRDP
project has an Apache licence that may be more useful for you.
Personally, I don't like this kind of arrangement but if the code owners
say it's fine, than it's fine.

[]s

Adilson.
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