Dual licensing policy — New way for software development

摘要

Software distribution strategies have many aspects and can be analysed by reviewing different incisions of a strategy. The focus of this paper is on Licensing aspect involves licensing strategy, licensing risks, licensing enforcement costs. Furthermore, by formulating licensing strategy main technical and business aspects are predicted also. The key issues of this paper are different business models for FOSS software and also SWOT analysis of usage and development of FOSS software from point of view of different user groups. This analysis was provided as part of work of Humboldt IP, LernSens and Collaborative@Rural IP. Currently this strategy is an important issue of members of Czech Centre for Science and Society and WirelessInfo Living Lab, where models based on dual licensing are important.