Allen,
Le 5 févr. 08 à 21:00, Allen Pulsifer a écrit :
Heck, even the FSF does that...
You're telling me that the FSF will not accept contributions to an
open
source project unless it is given an assignment of copyright that
allows it
to license the contribution under any terms it wants, including a
commercial
license? Please direct me to the web page at fsf.org that says this.
You're mixing two things here: license and copyright. The very fact of
owning the copyright automatically gives you the right to relicense
the software covered by your copyright under any terms you wish, and
this applies to the FSF just like anybody. What the FSF does not do,
of course is to develop its software under a dual license of course.
What I'm saying about the FSF applies to every software that is called
GNU, or more exactly the software projects that have given their
copyright to the FSF (i.e, the GNU project): https://
savannah.gnu.org/ (check the copyright notices of the software)
I'm surprized that you didn't know this, Allen. By the way, what I'm
describing (copyright) is exactly what allows a company like MySQL to
have a dual license strategy (GPL + commercial license)
Best,
Charles.
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