dual license with BSD and other

[James W. Thompson, II]

Unless perhaps if that "proprietary" license gave access to support or warranty.


On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:01:07 -0500, John Cowan <jcowan at reutershealth.com> wrote:
> 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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