dual license with BSD and other

[John Cowan]

Ned Lilly scripsit:

> Is anyone aware of a situation where a product is dual licensed - whereby 
> the open source license is a BSD-style license, and the other one is a 
> more traditional commercial license?
> 
> I've seen GPL/commercial dual licenses, but am not aware of any BSD 
> varieties.  Are there inherent reasons this wouldn't work?

If you license code under the BSD, there isn't much reason for anyone
to buy a proprietary license.  When the alternative is the GPL, it's
worth money for people to be able to contract out from the GPL's restrictions,
but the BSD license doesn't impose any significant restrictions.

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