Henningsen wrote:
My understanding is this: As the copyrightholder to my code, even if I
release it under the GPL, I am not bound by the terms of the GPL, and can
include code under a different license such as the MIT license. However, if
someone else uses my code under the terms of the GPL,
Rick Moen wrote:
Strictly speaking, you're not barred from _making_ works with
incompatible licences; the derivative work would just not be lawfully
_distributable_, as so doing would violate the licensing terms of the
third-party borrowed work.
The U.S. Copyright Act, at least (section
begin John Cowan quotation:
The U.S. Copyright Act, at least (section 106), speaks of prepar[ing]
derivative works based upon the copyrighted work as one of the
exclusive rights of authors. So in theory at least you are not
allowed even to translate your copy of _Foundation and Empire_
I want to release code I write myself under a dual license scheme, both GPL
and commercial license, the latter for people who want to use the code in
closed source projects. In my project I would like to include code released
under the Tcl/Tk license model (keep copyright notices in place, and
Henningsen scripsit:
I checked on the FSF's site whether these licenses are compatible with the
GPL, and didn't find anything. Are they or are they not?
The MIT license definitely is: see
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html under X11 license.
The Tcl/Tk license is not
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