Thank you guys for your answers. It's all clear now. On Oct 5, 10:04 pm, Nathaniel Manista <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:42 AM, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:31, alex_sv <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If so I have only one question: is it possible to have dual license > > > for Google-hosted project: open source license and commercial one? > > > I mean if I am an author of some opensourced application that is > > > hosted at Google code and licensed under GPL (General Public License), > > > can I offer it to my customers under different license terms, I mean > > > commercial license, like Nokia (formerly Trolltech) offers Qt? > > > Google Code does not offer explicit support for dual licensing. > > However, in your case, as far as Google Code is concerned, we see that > > you're offering software under a single license, the GNU GPL. Then, as > > the author, you are completely within your rights to offer the > > software under a different license to paying customers. > > > As long as the whole project hosted on Google Code follows the terms > > of the license you configured for the project, I don't see a problem > > with having something like "If you'd like to use this software in a > > commercial setting where the GNU GPL is problematic, please contact > > me" in the description of your project. All we care about is that > > users can make full use of the software avalailable on Google Code, > > under the license advertised by the project. Private arrangements that > > you make with certain entities beyond that as the author are not our > > concern. > > > Other Google Code team folks, does that sound right to you? > > > - Dave > > It does sound right and in line with what we've said > before<https://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting/browse_thread/thr...> > . > -Nathaniel
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