Copyleft and Dual Licensing for Publicly Funded Software development

"There has been an extensive debate on the correct licensing policies for software developed with the use of public funds. (..). What has often been missing from this over-politicised debate, though, is a clear understanding of the goals and principles behind such policy decisions and a discussion of the outcome of specific license choices in furthering these goals. This discussion paper aims to provide some of this clarity. It also proposes a policy of dual licensing (where one of the licenses is a copyleft license) as a solution that arguably results in an outcome clearly in line with the principles of public funding."

Topics