On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 07:29 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. Such dual licensing would be useless. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
