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You may want to take careful note of the issue ~laGrenouille raises about others' contributions, though.

Say a patch/pull-request is freely offered to your AGPL project. I believe it's well-understood that such a submission includes implicit permission for distribution under that same open-source license.

But you will also be licensing that same contributed code under another custom commercial license. Contributors should understand that – you've made it clear in surrounding docs – but whether you can legally assume their re-licensing permission, without an explicit copyright-assignment, is a bit murkier of an issue.



Oh, no --- there'll be an explicit contributor agreement. Pull requests to the code can't be merged until they've signed on. I'm planning to base it off Oracle's: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html




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