On 23 Jan 2001 10:42:26 +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
You can't restrict GPL'd software like that. It is either GPL or it isn't: adding restrictions violates FSF's copyright on it.
You certainly can :) The FSF doesn't automatically have copyright over GPL software. A lot of people *give* copyright to the FSF, for either legal or practical reasons.
No, but they have copyright over the GPL, which prevents anything other than "Fair Use" of it in another licence:-
That's nothing to do with dual-licencing issues, though. Dual licensing doesn't alter the terms of either license, it only specifies the terms in which you may accept to be bound by the license.
Dual-licensing is very different from 'free but proprietry'. Perl is dual-licensed, but I still class it has Free software because I have the option of using it under the GPL, which is an option I exercise.
I was pointing out that I thought dual licences other than the categories listed were classed as "free but restricted" by freshmeat, I think. Nothing more.
No, free but restricted essentially means freeware pretty much, which the author might have 'very kindly' allowed you to do more with :(. Dual licensed stuff, like Perl, just comes up as 'GPL & Artistic'. It's still Free software - because you can get it as GPL - it's just /also/ non-Free / free / commercial / whatever else they licence it with.
BTW - I did have a look for examples of dual licensing. GPL & Artistic seems to be *the* major 'dual license' example. I couldn't find a *single* example of a dual scheme where one partner wasn't the GPL - does anyone know of any examples??
Cheers,
Alex.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:
BTW - I did have a look for examples of dual licensing. GPL & Artistic seems to be *the* major 'dual license' example. I couldn't find a *single* example of a dual scheme where one partner wasn't the GPL - does anyone know of any examples??
Some drivers in the Linux kernel are BSD or GPL: e.g. drivers/char/random.c
Part of the Mozilla code is dual licensed: The Javascript interpreter and (iirc) the new mail subsystem.
Werner
On 23 Jan 2001 21:21:12 +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
BTW - I did have a look for examples of dual licensing. GPL & Artistic seems to be *the* major 'dual license' example. I couldn't find a *single* example of a dual scheme where one partner wasn't the GPL - does anyone know of any examples??
Some drivers in the Linux kernel are BSD or GPL: e.g. drivers/char/random.c
Part of the Mozilla code is dual licensed: The Javascript interpreter and (iirc) the new mail subsystem.
Yes ;) I was trying to think of examples where GPL *wasn't* involved: like MPL & Artistic, or something like that. I've not been able to find / think of any dual-licenced software that doesn't involve the GPL. A lot of people seem to choose to dual-license to allow those writing free, but non-GPL software, (such as the BSDers) the right to use the code also - I can't find any examples of other dual-license systems.
Just strikes me as odd :)
Cheers,
Alex.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:22:30PM +0000, Alex Hudson wrote:
BTW - I did have a look for examples of dual licensing. GPL & Artistic seems to be *the* major 'dual license' example.
The reason is, that the Artistic License is not free software by FSF standard, because of confusing wording.
I couldn't find a *single* example of a dual scheme where one partner wasn't the GPL - does anyone know of any examples??
shapelib for instance is LGPL and MIT. :) (Check: http://freegis.org/ )
Bernhard
Yes ;) I was trying to think of examples where GPL *wasn't* involved: like MPL & Artistic, or something like that. I've not been able to find / think of any dual-licenced software that doesn't involve the GPL.