Re: [Trisquel-users] Chris from TP is a hypocrite

[chris]

while I generally agree with the sentiment in certain cases dual-licensing  
does have potential issues. It doesn't ensure users rights are protected for  
the company licensing the software. At least not if it is under a BSD license  
or similar. You could also license it under a completely proprietary style  
license. This is bad for the ultimate users for so many reasons. It means  
they become dependent on a company that may or may not support the product  
going forward. With a free license it can simply be forked. The improvements  
or features added won't be lost.

I'm not sure this is a really good analogy though since the user is  
guaranteed to be able to switch from a distribution containing some non-free  
software (or even a non-free OS) to a distribution like Trisquel which only  
includes free software.