Apache v. GPL

John Cowan jcowan at reutershealth.com
Tue Apr 11 20:05:24 UTC 2000


Seth David Schoen wrote:

> It seems unlikely that a license would be successful in the free software
> world if it attempted to prohibit dual licensing, so no.

Indeed, it would be nonsense.  Nobody but the author can license code
under any particular license, so saying "I license my code under license
X and no other" is a promise to one's self alone.
 
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