Legal Bounds of Licensing...

David Starner dvdeug at x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu
Tue Sep 28 17:20:40 UTC 1999


On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 12:57:59PM -0400, V. Alex Brennen wrote:
> Basically, I have written an IDE for GNU/Linux which I'm
> about to release. I would like to dual license it under
> the GPL and a license which I will write. I would like the
> second license to go to greater lengths than the GPL does
> in it's effort to help make software free.  I am curious
> what the legal bounds would be for the efforts of the second
> license.

You do realize that this is practically irrelevant if you dual license it.
If the second license just adds restrictions to the first, then people
will just use it under the first license.

David Starner - dstarner98 at aasaa.ofe.org



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