On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 2:43 PM John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think you are understanding the use case here. This is not about > dual licensing, it is about a work A under license L_A that is a derivative > of a work B under license L_B. Let us say that license L_B requires that a > copy of it (e.g. BSD) or a reference to it (e.g. Apache) be present in a > derivative work such as A. However, work A is licensed only under license > L_A; license L_B is not the effective license of work A. Therefore there > should be SPDX metadata for L_A but not for L_B. > How come the original license, e.g. Apache or BSD, doesn't apply to the derivative work, or at least to the unchanged parts? Law is so confusing.
