Fedora Freedom and linux-libre
Simo Sorce
ssorce at redhat.com
Mon Jun 30 19:43:01 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 07:29 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Les Mikesell wrote:
> >>
> >> Perhaps there are places who want to prevent better versions than
> >> their own from ever being available and use this to justify the GPL
> >> restrictions on combinations with other components. From a user's
> >> perspective, though, this is just as harmful as any other
> >> anti-competitive ploy to limit choices. And unfortunately, even if
> >> the business reasons to maintain the restrictions on a particular
> >> product go away, the restrictions, once applied, never do.
> >
> > That's factually incorrect. Relicensing, dual or even tri licensing
> > happens all the time.
>
> It's possible, but rare for project that has been under the GPL for any
> length of time. Since there is no requirement to track the copyright
> ownership of contributers there is generally no way to get permission
> from all of them for a change. Of course a dual license could be
> applied from the start with one being less restrictive like perl's to
> eliminate that problem.
Such dual licensing would be useless.
Simo.
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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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