On 8/31/2015 5:42 PM, Kevin Fleming wrote: > but in the end, you can only use the code under the license terms that > were attached when you received it. If no license was attached, then > you probably don't have any rights to use it at all. I think this statement is a fallacy, but I'm happy to hear other opinions. A license attaches to the intangible copyright, not to the tangible copy of the work you received. So as long as I can show that the same copyrighted work was available under a license, and that I am in compliance with the license, then I am a licensed user no matter where I got my copy of the work. The dual licensing scheme works because of the lack of desire to comply with the terms of the alternate license (going both ways, lack of interest in paying or lack of interest in meeting the conditions of the FOSS license), not because of where you got your copy of the code.
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