Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:06:20 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Brian Dean" <bsd@bsdhome.com>, <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Why multiple licenses? Message-ID: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKKEEDJIAA.davids@webmaster.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007041300480.27929-100000@vger.bsdhome.com>
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> 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? Basically, nothing is gained over just releasing with the BSD license. Since the BSD license allows someone to redistribute the code under a more restrictive license if they choose to. However, if you do release under dual licenses, and someone submits modifications to the GPL-licensed version, you can't propogate those changes into the BSD-licensed version. So some people may create both versions immediately just to manage the (potentially) diverging code bases. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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