> This dual licensing idea, GPL plus whatever other thing you like, >is not the answer. It's a workaround; and a hack at that. Here's an item of historical interest to free software. I attended a talk given by Richard Stallman back in 1990 (or 1991) at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and the question of dual licenses came up. I forget what Stallman's initial response was (I don't think he was for it), but lo and behold, L. Peter Deutsch was in the audience. He explained to everyone how he had contacted the Free Software Foundation before writing ghostscript, and obtained their agreement that he could distribute ghostscript under both the GPL and a proprietary license (which has made him enough money to be able to retire in Silicon Valley). So there you have it. Dual licensing, it would seem, originated from a compromise the FSF made to acquire a PostScript interpreter for the GNU project. I remember a little regret expressed by Stallman that this was the case. Scott Johnston http://www.vectaport.com
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