Which License should I pick?

[Arnoud Engelfriet]

Bjorn Reese wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 22:34, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> > No it is the other way around: if the program is released under a less
> > restricted license, e.g. xfree86-ish, then you could always, without
> > the consent of contributors, change to (L)GPL for newer versions. The
> 
> Maybe I am missing something, but why do you think that you can
> change the XFree86 license without the consent of contributors?

The X license permits sublicensing. So it permits incorporation
of the X software into a larger work which is then distributed
under another license, e.g. the GPL. 

Arnoud

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