>
>Scenario:
>
>I own a company that offers support services/programs for an open-source
>database software [I think we can think of one].
>
>I now decide to create a data access driver (say to ColdFusion) for this
>open-source software.
>
>
>Question:
>
>Can I charge a license fee for this driver or does the driver need to be
>release as open-source?

Of the open source licenses I've looked at (GPL, LGPL, MPL, NPL, BSD)
the only one that might keep the company from releasing the driver
as a commercial product is GPL. The other licenses allow commercial
products to link to an open source product. The license under which
Interbase(r) has been released (MPL V1.1) was designed to allow and
encourage commercial products built on the open source base.

The ownership of the company doesn't matter - releasing one product
as open source doesn't require opening the whole stable.

Does this help?

Cheers,

Ann

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