Sorry Ean for sending my reply offlist, The MIT license releases freely all of the protections of the GPL without restriction. So, if one is able to grant an MIT license and does, the licensor cannot claim any of the protections or restrictions of the GPL.
----- Original Message ---- From: Ean Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org Cc: Chris Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 11:24:32 PM Subject: Re: Dojo vs. Prototype vs. whatever On Wednesday 12 September 2007 02:32:02 pm Chris Howe wrote: > This is strange. It is only possible (methinks) if John Resig has > copyright ownership of every part of JQuery. And if he does, then the MIT > license invalidates the GPL license. If he does not have copyright > ownership of every part of JQuery, then if any contributions were added > through the GPL license, it's likely all of the codebase is GPL. How would the MIT license invalidate the GPL license? If he has copyright assignment back to him on everything then he can certainly dual-license the code. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com
