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Date:      Tue, 03 Jul 2001 12:02:04 -0700
From:      David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning?
Message-ID:  <3B4216AC.5835E156@acuson.com>
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j mckitrick wrote:

> Isn't one of the arguments of the GPL that the author *could* make their GPL
> code available under separate license for proprietary use?

Yes it is. But only the author can do so. Even the FSF could release
their stuff under a proprietary license if they wanted to. But this
isn't different from any other license. Licenses are restrictions on the
user and not on the author.

David

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