Re: [License-discuss] Option to fall back from GPL to ASL

2015-08-26 Thread David Woolley
On 25/08/15 22:26, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: The vendors of BAR also offer a commercial license for BAR. If somebody buys that license, we want them to be able to use FOO under the commercial-friendly ASL terms without having to give them any extra permission. Right now, those people

Re: [License-discuss] Option to fall back from GPL to ASL

2015-08-26 Thread Kevin Fleming
Also, in this situation, the copyright holders of BAR (and thus the licensors) are the parties that would have standing to pursue any action against a distributor who distributes a derivative work of BAR without following the terms of its license (the GPL, or a commercial license). If someone has

Re: [License-discuss] Option to fall back from GPL to ASL

2015-08-25 Thread John Cowan
Richard Eckart de Castilho scripsit: This software is provided under the terms of the GPL *as long as mandated by the reciprocal terms of libraries used by this software*. Any code removed from this software falls back to ASL unless it continues to depend on GPL code. Likewise, all code

[License-discuss] Option to fall back from GPL to ASL

2015-08-25 Thread Richard Eckart de Castilho
Hi all, I am relatively new here, yet this seems to be the most appropriate venue to ask a question that has been nagging me for a while now. I'm involved in a project that consists of multiple modules, most are ASL licensed, but some are GPL licensed. The reason why we use GPL for a few