Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Perhaps there are places who want to prevent better versions than
their own from ever being available and use this to justify the GPL
restrictions on combinations with other components. From a user's
perspective, though, this is just as harmful as any other
anti-competitive ploy to limit choices. And unfortunately, even if
the business reasons to maintain the restrictions on a particular
product go away, the restrictions, once applied, never do.
That's factually incorrect. Relicensing, dual or even tri licensing
happens all the time.
It's possible, but rare for project that has been under the GPL for any
length of time. Since there is no requirement to track the copyright
ownership of contributers there is generally no way to get permission
from all of them for a change. Of course a dual license could be
applied from the start with one being less restrictive like perl's to
eliminate that problem.
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