On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:45:08PM +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
> AKF> To release a non-free program is always ethically tainted, but
> AKF> legally there is no obstacle to your doing this. If you are the
> AKF> copyright holder for the code, you can release it under various
> AKF> different non-exclusive licenses at various times.
>
> Thank you. BTW, what mean "non-exclusive licenses" in sense of applying
> to different distributions (releases) of same software?
This text wasn't written by me, it was a cite.
When I read your question, I first thought, this is obvious. But the
more I think about it, the less obvious it is...
When you release something under the GPL you give the rights to
anybody. So you cannot tell others, that they are the only ones who
have the right, ie. you can't say they have the "exclusive" right.
This is obvious, when we talk about the "same software".
But what is not so obvious, is the question, what happens, if you just
use parts of your own(!) GPLd code in a totally new software. I am not
sure, but I think, this new software then can be under an exclusive
license. You just cannot privatize the GPLd part of it anymore.
But I am not a lawyer either...
--
Tschuess
Andreas
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