On Tue, Aug 24, 2004, Anatoly Vorobey wrote about "Re: GPL and commercial application": > You're free to license your derived work under any license you want, > restrictive as it may be, as long as you *also* license it under the > terms of the GPL. That is not an academic distinction; quite a few companies > make their living upon it (offering various products under commercial > licenses as well as the GPL, with the commercial license offering > additional benefits for the client).
You are forgetting one important thing: you can only relicense the parts of the software that you own the copyright for! Let me give you an example of a relicense you cannot do. Let's say that product XYZ is GPL. You create an improved version, and call it XYZ++, and release it under the GPL. Now, a client of yours wants to buy the rights to XYZ++ which will allow them to make their own changes it and to sell the resulting product without its source. You simply cannot sell these rights to them! The GPL, the license of the original program XYZ, does not allow you do to that. The fact that you also release XYZ++ under the GPL doesn't help you. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Aug 24 2004, 7 Elul 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Guarantee: this email is 100% free of http://nadav.harel.org.il |magnetic monopoles, or your money back! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
