From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 4 13: 6:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (ftp.webmaster.com [209.10.218.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FFA37B9FF for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:06:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:05:59 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Brian Dean" , Subject: RE: Why multiple licenses? Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:06:20 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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