Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:14:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Why multiple licenses? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007041300480.27929-100000@vger.bsdhome.com>
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Hi, This may be a really dumb question, but here goes. What is gained by having your code distributed with multiple licenses? I've seen/heard about instances where some folks release their code under both a GPL and a BSD style license. For a consumer of that code, does the most restrictive license apply? The least restrictive? Does the consumer choose which license they choose to follow? Is the resulting license some fusion of the two licenses? What if the two licenses have conflicting goals? I'm just looking for a simple answer to this, not a long legal lesson. I'm curious about this because I plan to soon release some software for public use and I am suddenly interested in licenses. Having multiple licenses seemed odd. I can understand that a person may have one license for one group, and a different license for another group. But I'm curious about what it means to have two very different licenses that may be applied simultaneously. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean bsd@FreeBSD.org bsd@bsdhome.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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