Copyright & License Questions

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This is not legal advice. No lawyer-client is established. etc etc

----- Original Message -----
From: "SamBC" <sambc at nights.force9.co.uk>
To: "John Cowan" <jcowan at reutershealth.com>;
<license-discuss at opensource.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:07 PM
Subject: RE: Copyright & License Questions


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan at reutershealth.com]
> >
> >
> > > 7) If I had a client who hired me to do a customized and
> > closed-version of
> > > the Open Source software, what license would enable me to do so?
> >
> >
> > Almost any except the GPL.
>
> Wrong. If you are the copyright [sic] holder, you are free to re-license
as you see
> fit. You cannot revoke a license like the GPL (although a license may have
> revocation clauses, I feel the OSD wouldn't permit it), so you cannot stop
> people who already have/are distributing the GPL version, but *you* (and
> only you, or those expressly given an alternative license permitting them
to
> do so) can make a new version non-GPL.
>

Just to clarify here on the multi-licensing issue for the benefit of new
members to the list...To be able to freely multi-license without any
restriction, the copyright holder must be the holder of the copyright of all
the code. If the copyright holder is the holder of the copyright of a
derived work, then that copyright holder may be limited in relicensing
his/her derivative work copyright by virtue of the license terms associated
with the original code.

>
> SamBC
>
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