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[Brian Koontz <brian AT opennicproject.org>]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 11:57:04AM +0100, Falk Husemann wrote:
> Why do we start giving our work away for free without any reward
> should someone find it useful and e.g use in his book he gets paid
> for? I mean, nothing would offend me more than being offered money for
> my work. But if someone finds it useful and uses it in a commercial
> product I'd like to be able to sue his modifications out of him for
> the benefit of the whole community :)

Falk--

It would be like forcing companies to pay us to use OpenNIC.  We've
never been about that.  And I don't believe there's really anything
that we have documentation-wise that's commercially viable.  Oh, and
since we're not a legal entity (yet) we have no way of collecting even
if we did charge someone to use our material.

  --Brian

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